The OMICS Universe And Its Future

The OMICS acronym crawled into the hive mind of the life science community as the Marvel universe onto the movie screens: slowly but successfully. Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, methylomics or surfaceomics occupy a growing field of research in systems biology lately. It will be an even more significant strand in the future with practical ramifications, such as transcriptomic tests for disease risks. Thus, it is recommended to get familiar with the OMICS universe. Here’s a glimpse of it. Systems biology and the messenger game When I was in fourth grade, a fun game sometimes referred to as the ‘broken telephone game’ lighted up my school trips. We usually made long hiking trips in nature, which for me, an impersonator of Sheldon Cooper, seemed rather dull and an unnatural place of stay. We formed a line, and the one at the end of the row whispered a message in the ear of the closest individual. The words were passed down to the other end of the line, with the last person saying it out loud. It was amusing to see how the message was twisted and turned due to different receptors, environmental factors and how it ended up as an end-product of the interplay between many ears, brains, noise, etc. That’s how Katie’s got a big head could end up being the navy caught a pig dead. In a nutshell and in plain language, this is the process that happens when information from our DNA, the ultimate source, is passed down to different molecules in our cel...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Biotechnology Future of Medicine big data biology cancer clinical research genetics genomics metabolome metabolomics precision medicine proteome proteomics systems biology transcriptome transcriptomics treatment Source Type: blogs