The centre will enable Denmark to develop more effective treatments targeted the individual patient by the use of knowledge and new technologies. With the facilities provided by the centre, Danish physicians can offer patients analyses of their genes and health history in combination with the newest research results. This is the vision of precision medicine. In this video you can hear Ewan Birney, Director of EMBL-EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute) explain what he believe the Danish National Genome Center will mean for important new advances in our understanding of health and disease.