Main description:

With the advent of new technologies and acquired knowledge, the number of fields in omics and their applications in diverse areas are rapidly increasing in the postgenomics era. Such emerging fields-including pharmacogenomics, toxicogenomics, regulomics, spliceomics, metagenomics, and environomics-present budding solutions to combat global challenges in biomedicine, agriculture, and the environment. OMICS: Applications in Biomedical, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences provides valuable insights into the applications of modern omics technologies to real-world problems in the life sciences. Filling a gap in the literature, it offers a broad, multidisciplinary view of current and emerging applications of omics in a single volume.

Written by highly experienced active researchers, each chapter describes a particular area of omics and the associated technologies and applications. Topics covered include:

Proteomics, epigenomics, and pharmacogenomics
Toxicogenomics and the assessment of environmental pollutants
Applications of plant metabolomics
Nutrigenomics and its therapeutic applications
Microalgal omics and omics approaches in biofuel production
Next-generation sequencing and omics technology for transgenic plant analysis
Omics approaches in crop improvement
Engineering dark-operative chlorophyll synthesis
Computational regulomics
Omics techniques for the analysis of RNA splicing
New fields, including metagenomics, glycomics, and miRNA
Breast cancer biomarkers for early detection
Environomics strategies for environmental sustainability

This timely book explores a wide range of omics application areas in the biomedical, agricultural, and environmental sciences. Throughout, it highlights working solutions as well as open problems and future challenges. Demonstrating the diversity of omics, it introduces readers to state-of-the-art developments and trends in omics-driven research.

Contents:

The World of Omics and Applications in Biomedical Sciences: Proteomics: Techniques, Applications, and Challenges. Epigenome: Genomic Response to Environmental Eccentricities. Epigenomics: Basics and Applications. Pharmacogenomics for Individualized Therapy. Pharmacogenomic Knowledge to Support Personalized Medicine: The Current State. Toxicogenomics: Techniques, Applications, and Challenges. The World of Noncoding RNAs. Spliceomics: The OMICS of RNA Splicing. Computational Regulomics: Information Theoretic Approaches toward Regulatory Network Inference. Glycomics: Techniques, Applications, and Challenges. Breast Cancer Biomarkers. Use of Protein Biomarkers for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer. The World of Omics and Applications in Plant and Agricultural Sciences: Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics: Tools for Crop Improvement under Changing Climatic Scenarios. Application of Next-Generation Sequencing for Abiotic Stress Tolerance. Next-Generation Sequencing and Assembly of Bacterial Genomes. Towards Engineering Dark-Operative Chlorophyll Synthesis Pathways in Transgenic Plastids. Utilization of Omics Technology to Analyze Transgenic Plants. Microalgal Omics and Their Applications. Plant Metabolomics: Techniques, Applications, Trends, and Challenges. Nutraceuticals: Applications in Biomedicine. Genomic Resources of Agriculturally Important Animals, Insects, and Pests. The World of Omics and Applications in Environmental Sciences: Applications of Molecular Spectroscopy in Environmental and Agricultural Omics. Metagenomics: Techniques, Applications, and Challenges. Toxicogenomics in the Assessment of Environmental Pollutants. Omics Approaches in Biofuel Production for a Green Environment. Environomics: Omics for the Environment. Index.