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Omics : applications in biomedical, agricultural, and environmental sciences
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Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013
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xxi, 691 p. : ill, ; 26 cm.
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9781466562813

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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.


Author Notes

Debmalya Barh is the founder and president of the Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology (IIOAB), India, a global platform for multidisciplinary research and advocacy. He is a consultant biotechnologist and has more than 12 years of rich experience in interdisciplinary omics fields. His research areas include integrative omics-based translational researches, target and targeted drug discovery, biomarkers, pharmacogenomics, neutrigenomics, cancer, neuroscience, cardiovascular diseases, infectious and metabolic diseases, and plant, animal, and environmental biotechnology. As an active scientist in the field, he works with nearly 200 researchers from more than 80 institutes across 25 countries. He has edited a number of research reference books in the areas of omics, biomarkers, and other advanced domains in biology. He also serves as an editorial and review board member for several professional international research journals of global repute.

Vasudeo Zambare is a biochemist. He previously worked at Agharkar Research Institute, India, and the Center for Bioprocessing Research and Development at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA. His current research concentrates on the use of omics technologies in agriculture, functional food, and environmental sciences. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and is editor-in-chief, technical editor, associate editor, editorial board member, or advisory member of more than 80 international research journals. He is a fellow member of several international societies, including the Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology (IIOAB).

Vasco Azevedo is a full professor in molecular biology and genetics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a pioneer scientist in lactic acid bacteria and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis and a well-known scientist in bacterial genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. His research also involves omics approaches in livestock and agricultural biotechnology in the development of new omics-based vaccines and diagnostics against infectious diseases. He has published 160 research articles and 15 book chapters. He is an associate editor of several journals, including Genetics and Molecular Research, Microbial Cell Factories, and The IIOAB Journal, and an editorial board member of a number of international journals.


Table of Contents

Elangovan NamasivayamAnjana Munshi and Srirama Krupanidhi and Yog Raj AhujaJaspreet Kaur and Jyotdeep KaurEugenia Ch. YiannakopoulouCasey Lynnette Overby and Houda HachadIndra Arulselvi Padikasan and Nancy DanielWinnie Thomas and Qurratulain Hasan and Konagurtu Vaidyanath and Yog Raj AhujaA. R. Rao and Tanmaya Kumar Sahu and Nishtha SinghVijender Chaitankar and Debmalya Barh and Vasco Azevedo and Preetam GhoshVeeraperumal Suresh and Chinnathambi Anbazhagan and Dakshanamurthy BalasubramanyamRajneesh K. GaurBirendra Kumar and Purnmasi Ram Yadav and Surender SinghHifzur Rahman and D. V. N. Sudheer Pamidimarri and Ramanathan Valarmathi and Raveendran MuthurajanTapan Kumar Mondal and Keita SutohArtur Silva and Rommel Ramos and Adriana Carneiro and Sintia Almeida and Vinicius De Abreu and Anderson Santos and Siomar Soares and Anne Pinto and Luis Guimarães and Eudes Barbosa and Paula Schneider and Vasudeo Zambare and Debmalya Barh and Anderson Miyoshi and Vasco AzevedoMuhammad Sarwar KhanMarisela Rivera-Domínguez and Martín-Ernesto Tiznado-HernándezShanmugam Hemaiswarya and Rathinam Raja and Ramanujam Ravikumar and Annamalai Yogesh Kumar and Isabel S. CarvalhoShoaib AhmadVellingiri VadivelSarika and Anu Sharma and Anil Rai and Mir Asif Iquebal and Poonam ChilanaDaniel CozzolinoJyoti Vakhlu and Puja GuptaLuciana B. Crotti and Luis A. EspinozaAtul Grover and Patade Vikas Yadav and Maya Kumari and Sanjay Mohan Gupta and Mohommad Arif and Zahoan AhmedDinesh K. Yadav and Neelam Yadav and Satyendra Mohan Paul Khurana
Forewordp. xi
Prefacep. xiii
Editorsp. xv
Contributorsp. xvii
Part I The World of Omics and Applications in Biomedical Sciences
1 Proteomics: Techniques, Applications, and Challengesp. 3
2 Epigenome: Genomic Response to Environmental Eccentricitiesp. 43
3 Epigenomics: Basics and Applicationsp. 73
4 Pharmacogenomics for Individualized Therapyp. 95
5 Pharmacogenomic Knowledge to Support Personalized Medicine: The Current Statep. 121
6 Toxicogenomics: Techniques, Applications, and Challengesp. 137
7 The World of Noncoding RNAsp. 183
8 Spliceomics: The OMICS of RNA Splicingp. 201
9 Computational Regulomics: Information Theoretic Approaches toward Regulatory Network Inferencep. 225
10 Glycomics: Techniques, Applications, and Challengesp. 245
11 Breast Cancer Biomarkersp. 275
12 Use of Protein Biomarkers for the Early Detection of Breast Cancerp. 299
Part II The World of Omics and Applications in Plant and Agricultural Sciences
13 Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics: Tools for Crop Improvement under Changing Climatic Scenariosp. 317
14 Application of Next-Generation Sequencing for Abiotic Stress Tolerancep. 347
15 Next-Generation Sequencing and Assembly of Bacterial Genomesp. 367
16 Towards Engineering Dark-Operative Chlorophyll Synthesis Pathways in Transgenic Plastidsp. 385
17 Utilization of Omics Technology to Analyze Transgenic Plantsp. 399
18 Microalgal Omics and Their Applicationsp. 439
19 Plant Metabolomics: Techniques, Applications, Trends, and Challengesp. 451
20 Nutraceuticals: Applications in Biomedicinep. 481
21 Genomic Resources of Agriculturally Important Animals, Insects, and Pestsp. 519
Part III The World of Omics and Applications in Environmental Sciences
22 Applications of Molecular Spectroscopy in Environmental and Agricultural Omicsp. 551
23 Metagenomics: Techniques, Applications, and Challengesp. 569
24 Toxicogenomics in the Assessment of Environmental Pollutantsp. 597
25 Omics Approaches in Biofuel Production for a Green Environmentp. 623
26 Environomics: Omics for the Environmentp. 637
Indexp. 667
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