Article Review by Hrvojka Bosnjak, Kresimir Pavelic & Sandra Kraljevic Pavelic
The sequencing of the human genome was an enormous achievement in more than one sense as both the annotated sequence and the bioinformatics tools developed have become enormously important to biomedical research. In addition, the technological advances made during the project have further promoted the new ‘-omics’ approach in molecular biology research; it is a global, systematic and comprehensive way of identifying and describing the molecular processes and pathways involved in physiological functions and pathological states. Since the start of the Human Genome Project in 1990, its proponents have pointed out that the knowledge gained could lead to new cures or preventive measures for a wide range of diseases, as well as enormous benefits to general health.
A recent white paper by the European Medical Research Council (Strasbourg, France) explicitly encourages the use of new -omics technologies, as well as systems biology, nanomedicine, regenerative medicine, and tissue and stem-cell banking, in order to improve clinical and medical practice .....(get full article here : http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v9/n11/pdf/embor2008198.pdf )
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