Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the leading drivers of the growth of genetic testing. So even before AI methods proliferated, there was considerable potential in gathering data, unifying it and crunching it to support better care. In other words, we are removing unreliable and untraceable genetic testing results from DNA testing," said Lehtonen. Lehtonen doesn't think regulation will be a barrier to the development of AI in genetic testing. "There are excellent data sharing efforts made, but the problem always is that really pure and high-quality data is hard to accumulate fast.

Source: Forbes March 30, 2018 23:50 UTC