About the CLARITY Challenge
We are on the threshold of a revolution in patient care. With important insights emerging daily about the genetic basis of disease, and the cost of sequencing an individual’s genome plummeting from over $3 million to $5,000 in only the past decade, the time is rapidly approaching when genomic information will leap from the research bench to the doctor’s office and become a part of everyday care.
This new era opens possibilities for designing tailored, life-long strategies for maintaining health and treating disease that are derived first from knowledge of an individual’s genetic makeup, as well as the environmental factors that may affect each person’s health.
- Inconsistent or non-specific sequencing results and non-interoperable processes
- Conflicting gene variant annotations and classification
- A hodge-podge of non-standardized databases
- Lack of standards concerning individual privacy and data access
- Resulting reports that are not clear or useful to doctors, genetic counselors and patients
Despite the rapid progress in the speed of genome sequencing, we have not advanced as quickly in understanding how we will apply the insights it brings to everyday patient care. How reliable are the data, and how do we deliver the information in an understandable way to physicians or patients to help guide better healthcare?
The answer lies in creating standardized methods for analyzing, interpreting, reporting and, ultimately, using genomic information in a clinical setting.
This is why we have launched the CLARITY Challenge.
