Just as the term genome stood for the cutting edge of science and technology in the last decade of the 20th century, the term diseasome has cme to inspire scientific innovation and open-source collaboration for the 21st century.
First introduced as a way of mappingt diseases by Marc Vidal and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi in 2008, the diseasome is the structure of genetic and proteomic relationships among types of diseases. It is usually rendered as a network diagram. The concept, and the maps it has inspired, allow for a greater understanding of the diversity of diseases in a systemic, rather than anecdotal, way. In the era of ReDS, diseasome has become part of the everyday lexicon.