[Bioinformatics] addresses two realms, the laboratory and the hospital.

In the latter, patients are typically diagnosed at the organ level, and then treated at the chemical level. Put another way, doctors use information at one locus and scale to Rx treatments at another locus and scale.

[Bioinformatics] will be able to help the "potion vs. poison" question when it can...

• introduce into the "patient history" a coherent and complete GeneticBackground

• analyze millions of raw data points from each patient in realtime

• determine candidate drug's efficacy in the face of potential AllostericPathways

• cover PolyGenic diseases

To get there, researchers apply genetic techniques to ImmunoAssay diagnoses, and are using [Bioinformatics] to explain legacy drugs.

See also: GeneticExceptionalism, ClusteringPatients, JournalOfMolecularDiagnostics.