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<p>Origin of genomics for me lies in the mid of 20th century when Watson and Crick found the structure&nbsp;of&nbsp; DNA. I think that from that point it was getting clear that the information that passes through generations is actually DNA.&nbsp;</p>
 
 
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<p>-The genomics by Darwin &amp; Mendel</p>
 
 
 
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<p>-&nbsp;Through Mendel&#39;s Cross experiment, we could know about how phenotype is inherited or transfered to their outsprings.</p>
 
 
 
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<p>Watson/ Crick&gt; 3D Proteins &gt; Cloning, Recombination &gt; Amplification Technologies &gt; Human Reference Genome &gt; Next Gen. Sequencing/Personal Genomics &gt; Genome&nbsp;Engineering - &gt;&nbsp; Synthetic Biology</p>
 
 
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<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;Darwin&gt;Mendel &gt; 3D Proteins &gt; Cloning, Recombination &gt; Amplification Technologies &gt; Human Reference Genome &gt; Next Gen. Sequencing/Personal Genomics &gt; Synthetic Biology &gt; Genome&nbsp;Engineering</p>
 
 
 
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<p>4) The future of genomics?</p>
 
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<p>-The&nbsp;future&nbsp;genomic technologies allow clinicians and biomedical researchers to drastically increase the amount of genomic data collected on large study populations.</p>
 
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<p>However, increasing the number of data from the population may not solve all the problems&nbsp; due to heterogeneity that some diseases harbor. Thus single cell sequencing is another branch that should and will have major breakthroughs&nbsp; that will help us understand genomes better.&nbsp;</p>
  
 
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<p>The omics studies are mainly focused on data analysis, thus the tools and logic used in these studies may be interchanged.&nbsp;</p>
 
 
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<p>The related suffix -ome is used to address the objects of study of such fields, such as the genome,&nbsp;proteome or&nbsp;metabolome respectively. The suffix -ome as used in molecular biology refers to a totality of some sort; similarly omics has come to refer generally to the study of large, comprehensive biological data sets. While the growth in the use of the term has led some scientists to claim that it has been oversold, it reflects the change in orientation towards the quantitative analysis of complete or near-complete assortment of all the constituents of a system</p>
 
 
 
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<p>Synthetic biology is the field that progressing and aiming on this particular question. Creating a genome from scratch seems incredible, however for me it is still the data the information that&nbsp;genomes have is more important rather than&nbsp;the place, whether it is a tube or cell where the information was created. &nbsp;</p>
 
 
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<p>&nbsp;It alters the genetic make-up of an organism using techniques that remove heritable material or that introduce DNA prepared outside the organism either directly into the host or into a cell that is then fused or hybridized with the host.This involves using recombinant nucleic acid&nbsp; techniques to form new combinations of heritable genetic material followed by the incorporation of that material either indirectly through a vector system or directly through micro-injection, macro-injection and micro-encapsulation techniques.</p>
 

Latest revision as of 02:51, 17 June 2018

1) Define Genomics your own way after doing research on what genomes are and how we study.

Genomics is a study of a genome. While genome is a complete set of genes of an organism, including all modifications that structures responsible for gene maintenance can harbor 

-Genomics is changing the paradigm of biology

Indeed the way that NGS enabled scientist to approach the biological phenomena is magnificent. The breakthrough happened just 15-20  years ago, at the fruits of it are still to come. Cancer, aging , neurodegenerative diseases, stem cell research and particularly all other researches in the biological field are taking benefits from this breakthrough. And yes it can be said that paradigm has shifted. 

 

2) What is the origin of genomics?

Origin of genomics for me lies in the mid of 20th century when Watson and Crick found the structure of  DNA. I think that from that point it was getting clear that the information that passes through generations is actually DNA. 

 

3) History of genomics?

Watson/ Crick> 3D Proteins > Cloning, Recombination > Amplification Technologies > Human Reference Genome > Next Gen. Sequencing/Personal Genomics > Genome Engineering - >  Synthetic Biology

 

4) The future of genomics?

-The future genomic technologies allow clinicians and biomedical researchers to drastically increase the amount of genomic data collected on large study populations.

However, increasing the number of data from the population may not solve all the problems  due to heterogeneity that some diseases harbor. Thus single cell sequencing is another branch that should and will have major breakthroughs  that will help us understand genomes better. 

 

5) What is the relationship with other omics?

The omics studies are mainly focused on data analysis, thus the tools and logic used in these studies may be interchanged. 

 

6) How can we engineer genomes?

Synthetic biology is the field that progressing and aiming on this particular question. Creating a genome from scratch seems incredible, however for me it is still the data the information that genomes have is more important rather than the place, whether it is a tube or cell where the information was created.