TY - JOUR
T1 - Horizon Scanning: Rise of Planetary Health Genomics and Digital Twins for Pandemic Preparedness
AU - Geanta, M.
AU - Tanwar, A.S.
AU - Lehrach, H.
AU - Satyamoorthy, K.
AU - Brand, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) and especially the Manipal School of Life Sciences. This work would have not been possible without the support provided through the prestigious Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Chair of MAHE and the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) project no. P1457. The authors thank the United Nations University—Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) and the Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences (FHML) at Maastricht University for infrastructure and support.
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2022, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated research and development not only in infectious diseases but also in digital technologies to improve monitoring, forecasting, and intervening on planetary and ecological risks. In the European Commission, the Destination Earth (DestinE) is a current major initiative to develop a digital model of the Earth (a "digital twin") with high precision. Moreover, omics systems science is undergoing digital transformation impacting nearly all dimensions of the field, including real-time phenotype capture to data analytics using machine learning and artificial intelligence, to name but a few emerging frontiers. We discuss the ways in which the current ongoing digital transformation in omics offers synergies with digital twins/DestinE. Importantly, we note here the rise of a new field of scholarship, planetary health genomics. We conclude that digital transformation in public and private sectors, digital twins/DestinE, and their convergence with omics systems science are poised to build robust capacities for pandemic preparedness and resilient societies in the 21st century.
AB - The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated research and development not only in infectious diseases but also in digital technologies to improve monitoring, forecasting, and intervening on planetary and ecological risks. In the European Commission, the Destination Earth (DestinE) is a current major initiative to develop a digital model of the Earth (a "digital twin") with high precision. Moreover, omics systems science is undergoing digital transformation impacting nearly all dimensions of the field, including real-time phenotype capture to data analytics using machine learning and artificial intelligence, to name but a few emerging frontiers. We discuss the ways in which the current ongoing digital transformation in omics offers synergies with digital twins/DestinE. Importantly, we note here the rise of a new field of scholarship, planetary health genomics. We conclude that digital transformation in public and private sectors, digital twins/DestinE, and their convergence with omics systems science are poised to build robust capacities for pandemic preparedness and resilient societies in the 21st century.
KW - digital transformation
KW - digital twins
KW - public health genomics
KW - SARS-CoV-2 sequencing
KW - pandemic preparedness
KW - genomic surveillance
KW - NEED
U2 - 10.1089/omi.2021.0062
DO - 10.1089/omi.2021.0062
M3 - (Systematic) Review article
C2 - 34851750
SN - 1536-2310
VL - 26
SP - 93
EP - 100
JO - OMICS-a journal of Integrative Biology
JF - OMICS-a journal of Integrative Biology
IS - 2
ER -