Mammalian Genomics
Hardly any other area of science has experienced such dramatic development as genomics during the last 15–20 years. While genomics of many pro- and eukaryotic species progressed rapidly, mammalian genomics, despite the obvious complexity, was in the centre of development. Over the last several ye...
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2014
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| Tóm tắt: | Hardly any other area of science has experienced such dramatic development as genomics during
the last 15–20 years. While genomics of many pro- and eukaryotic species progressed rapidly,
mammalian genomics, despite the obvious complexity, was in the centre of development. Over
the last several years, the Human Genome Project abandoned its initial academic status and
became a human endeavour comparable with the flight to the moon and other extraordinary
human achievements.
Data from other mammalian genomes such as mouse and rat have been published recently;
others for dog, cattle, chimpanzee and several more will soon follow. Incredible and
unprecedented opportunities for the comparative analysis of genomes brought by these huge
international efforts have already started to yield new results, and will certainly do much more in
the near future.
This explosion of genomic research has led to a quite widely expressed view that the genomic
era is behind us, and we are entering a post-genomic era. Although terminology and attempts to
categorize scientific development are usually subjective, it seems obvious to the editors of this
book that the genomic era is far from being over, and there are extraordinary opportunities to
expand this very productive way of generating deep understanding of the essential core of life.
This vision is reflected in the structure of the book, which is composed of five linked sections.
The first section is devoted to the structure of the mammalian genome and covers topics central
to genomics projects. It contains four chapters, covering linkage maps, cytogenetic and physical
maps, and the molecular anatomy of the human genome. The second section describes
functional aspects of genomics, topics often called functional genomics. There are five chapters in
this section covering different ‘omes’ including transcriptome, proteome, epigenome, regulation of
genome activity and genetic networks, as well as the analysis of gene functions by genome
manipulation. These fields of research provide essential information on the physiological output
of the genome. |
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