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ReviewNPJ digital medicine2025

Challenges and opportunities for digital twins in precision medicine from a complex systems perspective.

Manlio De Domenico, Luca Allegri, Guido Caldarelli, Valeria d'Andrea, Barbara Di Camillo, Luis M Rocha, Jordan Rozum, Riccardo Sbarbati, Francesco Zambelli

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Review in NPJ digital medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
69citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Manlio De DomenicoDepartment of Physics and Astronomy "Galileo Galilei", University of Padua, Padova, Italy. manlio.dedomenico@unipd.it.
Luca AllegriDepartment of Physics and Astronomy "Galileo Galilei", University of Padua, Padova, Italy.
Guido CaldarelliDSMN and ECLT Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venezia, Italy.
Valeria d'AndreaDepartment of Physics and Astronomy "Galileo Galilei", University of Padua, Padova, Italy.
Barbara Di CamilloPadua Center for Network Medicine, University of Padua, Padova, Italy.
Luis M RochaSchool of Systems Science and Industrial Eng., Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9402-887X
Jordan RozumSchool of Systems Science and Industrial Eng., Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA.
Riccardo SbarbatiDepartment of Physics and Astronomy "Galileo Galilei", University of Padua, Padova, Italy.
Francesco ZambelliDepartment of Physics and Astronomy "Galileo Galilei", University of Padua, Padova, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5631-5584

Funding

Evidence-based Drug-Interaction Discovery: In-Vivo, In-Vitro and ClinicalR01LM011945 · NLM · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI LI, LANG, ROCHA, LUIS M · 2014 to 2017
$1.8M
NLM NIH HHS R01 LM011945
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Digital twins (DTs) in precision medicine are increasingly viable, propelled by extensive data collection and advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), alongside traditional biomedical methodologies. We argue that including mechanistic simulations that produce behavior based on explicitly defined biological hypotheses and multiscale mechanisms is beneficial. It enables the exploration of diverse therapeutic strategies and supports dynamic clinical decision-making through insights from network science, quantitative biology, and digital medicine.

Identifiers

PMID39825012
PMCPMC11742446

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