The Visual Analytics cycle applied to Network Medicine. Data from different domains (e.g., cellular, molecular, and genetic networks) are input to two different processes, Visual Data Exploration which exploits visualization paradigms (Node‐Edge, Matrix, Chords, etc.) to represent these data and classic Automated Data Analysis through different approaches (machine learning, network analysis algorithms, etc.). These two processes are interconnected, allowing an analyst to steer algorithms by interacting with the visual representation of results. The whole process generates new insights (e.g., relationships among networks) used as a feedback loop for new cycles of analysis.

Contemporary views of human disease are based on simple correlation between clinical syndromes and pathological analysis dating from the late 19th century. Although this approach to disease diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment has served the medical establishment and society well for many years, it has serious shortcomings for the modern era of the genomic medicine that stem from its reliance on reductionist principles of experimentation and analysis. Quantitative, holistic systems biology applied to human disease offers a unique approach for diagnosing established disease, defining disease predilection, and developing individualized (personalized) treatment strategies that can take full advantage of modern molecular pathobiology and the comprehensive data sets that are rapidly becoming available for populations and individuals. In this way, systems pathobiology offers the promise of redefining our approach to disease and the field of medicine.