Introduction to omics.
Exploiting the potential of omics for clinical diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic purposes has currently been receiving a lot of attention. In recent years, most of the effort has been put into demonstrating the possible clinical applications of the various omics fields. The cost-effectiveness analysis has been, so far, rather neglected. The cost of omics-derived applications is still very high, but future technological improvements are likely to overcome this problem. In this chapter, we will give a general background of the main omics fields and try to provide some examples of the most successful applications of omics that might be used in clinical diagnosis and in a therapeutic context.
Gubb
Ewa
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Bioinformatics, Parque Technológico de Bizkaia, Derio, Spain.
Matthiesen
Rune
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D000818:Animals; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000378:metabolism; D035843:Biomedical Research; D006801:Humans; D055432:Metabolomics / Q000379:methods*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*
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