title: Human infectious diseases in the genomics era: where do we go from here?
abstract: Ripudaman K Bains is the editor of the Genome Biology special issue content on the 'genomics of infectious diseases', and introduces the collection in this editorial.
authors.forename: Ripudaman K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Bains
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans