基本説明
Contents: Application Domains: Model Organisms; The Human Genome; Genetic Diseases; Drug Development; Industrial Products from Genomes; Agrifood and Genomics, DNA Technologies; Sequencing Technology; Protein Technologies: 2D Gels and Mass Spectroscopy; and more.
Full Description
The chapters in this book try to capture the rapidly evolving field of genomics. Overviews of nucleic acid technologies, proteomics and bioinformatics are followed by chapters on applications, including human health, agriculture and comparative genomics. The book also includes two chapters on legal and ethical issues of genomics, a topic that is becoming more and more important.
Contents
Application domains: model organisms; the human genome; genetic diseases; drug development; industrial products from genomes; agrifood and genomics. DNA technologies: mapping; sequencing technology; genotyping; DNA chips and microarrays. Protein technologies: 2D gels and mass spectroscopy; capillary electrophoresis. Bioinformatics: databases for genomics; tools for DNA technologies; tools for protein technologies; structure information; automated genome annotation and comparative genomics; protein-protein interaction databases. Ethical, legal and social issues: patenting genetic information; ethical aspects of genome research.
