Genomics as the environment monitoring technology

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Genome and other nucleotide sequencing with genomics (bioinformatics) as environment monitoring technology

by Lara Smithe

Genomics can be used as the monitoring tool for environmental changes such as climate, polution, agriculture, and urbanization.
Metagenomics can be  used to track the changes of large scale species diversity variation. Bioinformatics databases need to be set up to store such data.