Digital twins offer potential to enhance the precision and personalisation of healthcare delivery. As part of a collaborative project between La Trobe University and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia, multidimensional 'omics-based digital twins of children are being developed. The aim is to explore their application to a range of health contexts in children. A pilot project is commencing that focuses on food allergy diagnosed at one year of age.
Keywords: digital twins; food allergy; genomics; machine learning; metabolomic; microbiome; paediatric healthcare; precision medicine; proteomics.