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-Omics Sciences

Sam Powell

-Omics??

What does it mean?


Large-scale study Looking at the big picture The whole system Hundreds, to thousands, to hundreds of thousands, to millions of data points

Bioinformatics

Types of Omics Sciences


Genomics Proteomics Metabolomics Connectomics

Genomics

Study of genomes But whats a genome?

Entirety of an organisms genetic information

Tools of the Trade


DNA Sequencing Microarrays

Significant Landmarks

Human Genome Project (HGP)


NIH Francis Collins Celera Shotgun approach

J. Craig Venter

Joint announcement

Future application

Personalized Medicine Other related omics fields


Cognitive Genomics Comparative Genomics Functional Genomics Metagenomics Epigenomics Transcriptomics

Venters Synthetic Genomics

Proteomics

Study of the structure and function of proteins Proteome=the entire complement of proteins of a given organism More complex than genome

Changes in response to environment One gene => hundreds (or even thousands) of different proteins Post-translational modification

Tools of the Trade


Western Blot 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis


Isoelectric focusing SDS-PAGE

ELISA and BCA analysis Electrospray ionization

Significant Landmarks

1994: Marc Wilkins => proteome 1997: Marc Wilkins => Proteome Research: New Frontiers in Functional Genomics 2000: Publication of most complete proteome from Mycoplasma genitalium (Wasginer et al) ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System)

http://expasy.org/

Online databases/resources

Future Application

Drug therapies Pharmagenomics

Metabolomics

Metabolites=end products of cellular processes Metabolome= the sum total of all metabolites in a biological cell The systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind

Tools of the Trade


Gas chromatography High performance liquid chromatography Mass spectrometry NMR spectroscopy

Significant Landmarks

Older than you may think

Ancient China

1971: Horning et al. introduced the term metabolic profile

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in urine and tissue extracts

1974: Sealy et al. use NMR to detect metabolites in unmodified biological samples 2005: First metabolomics database: METLIN

http://metlin.scripps.edu/

Human Metabolome Project (Dr. David Wishart)

Future Application

Toxicology Nutrigenomics Metabolism

Connectomics

High-throughput application of neural imaging Connectome

Comprehensive map of neural connections in brain

Tools of the Trade

Diffusion MRI

Tractography Diffusion Tensor Imaging Diffusion Spectrum Imagining

Significant Landmarks

2005: Dr. Olaf Sporns and Dr. Patric Hagmann suggest term connectome Dr. Sebastian Seung at MIT

I Am My Connectome TED Talk: www.ted. com/talks/sebastian_seung.html

Human Connectome Project

Future Applications

Figuring out consciousness Individuality, personality, memory Psychiatric disorders My research with Dr. Parikh

Crazy for Omics!

Changing our world

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