The Quantified Computer Scientist: Larry Smarr on the Future of Medicine – Vox

by James Temple

Mar 8, 2014, 10:00 AM PST

Cast across the screens are Smarr’s insides, or at least the closest you can get when breaking down the microbiology of a human body into data. There are some 150 variables in boxes color-coded against their divergence from the norm: There’s magnesium in green, lysosome in yellow, and lactoferrin in red.

That one’s trouble.