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NIH Request for Information: Metrics to Assess Value of Biomedical Digital Repositories

NIH has issued a Request for Information to gather input about metrics to assess the impact and value of biomedical digital data repositories, including deposition repositories and knowledgebases. NIH is interested in collecting information about the usage, quality of data, quality of service and other aspects of existing repositories. Community

CPIC and PGx discussed in recent GEN article

A recent article in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) discusses the future of pharmacogenetics in the context of clinical practice. The article notes that personalized medicine will likely be enacted through the work of intermediary groups, such as the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC), who can help clinicians keep

Nature Outlook: Precision Medicine on Pharmacogenetics highlights its status, promise, and burdens

An outlook on precision medicine in Nature discusses the status, promise, and burdens of the implementation of pharmacogenetic knowledge into clinical care. It highlights the PGEN4Kids program at St Jude, which is implementing CPIC recommendations in a preemptive genetic testing program for pediatric patients. As discussed in the article, CPIC

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PharmCAT poster to be presented at ASHG

At the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting in October, PharmGKB will be presenting the new Pharmacogenomics Clinical Annotation Tool (PharmCAT) with our colleague, Dr. Marylyn Ritchie, who is pictured on the home page of the meeting website (http://www.ashg.org/2016meeting/). We look forward to seeing everyone

CPIC Meeting at ASCPT on March 15, 2017

The Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium(CPIC®) Meeting will be held on March 15, 2017, in conjunction with the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) on March 15-18, 2017 (Washington, DC). The one-day symposium is organized by the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC®) (cpicpgx.

CPIC Seeks Feedback on Recommendation Strength and Gene/Drug Pair Level Definitions

CPIC is proposing changes to CPIC Guideline grades for strength of recommendation and for definitions of CPIC Levels of gene/drug pairs. Based on a review of other practices and challenges presented by some CPIC gene/drug pairs, it is recommended that the option "no recommendation" be added

Pharmacogenomics discussed in the Summer 2016 issue of Genome magazine

The current issue of Genome magazine includes the article "Determining a Drug Response", which provides a discussion of pharmacogenomics and contains interviews with multiple members of the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC), including Mark Dunnenberger (director of the pharmacogenomics program at NorthShore University HealthSystem), Stuart Scott (assistant professor

Standardized allele function and phenotype terms for clinical pharmacogenetic test results

In December 2014 and February 2015, we blogged about the CPIC term standardization project. CPIC (Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium) just published the results of this project in Genetics in Medicine. Consensus terms for allele function and phenotype were determined by starting with a broad list of terms currently used by

Improvements for Variant data in PharmGKB

PharmGKB is constantly improving the way we organize and annotate data in the field of pharmacogenomics. One of our recent improvements involves how we store and refer to Variants. Genetic variation is a very important part of what we do here at PharmGKB. That importance means we need a clear