Omics description

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Foodomics involves the use of multiple tools to deal with its different applications. Thus, the use of omics tools (as e.g., transcriptomics, proteomics, or metabolomics) is a must in this new discipline. Although a detailed description on these tools is out of the scope of this chapter, some fundamental concepts on different omics techniques are provided below. 

The MAGE has built within it a controlled vocabulary that is used to standardize communication between data providers. However, MAGE can also be extended to encode other types of omic data beyond genomics, such as proteomic data, so long as a reference to the ontology or controlled vocabulary is provided. Although a description of the extension mechanism is beyond scope of this book, practitioners must become familiar with it in order to ensure their software products and applications will be able to accept any and all annotation data that may be submitted with the genomic data. 

Appendix 5.1 Descriptions of Selected-omics Technologies 129 Appendix 5.2 Chemical Effects in Biological Systems (CEBS)... 

Unlike other omics techniques, it is clear that metabonomics is very much an emerging field and new lessons on how to conduct a proper metabonomics study are learned each day. A very positive development is that in an effort to standardize the reporting standards for metabonomics studies, a first draft of a minimum requirement for the description of the biological materials and/or processes examined in a metabolomic study involving mammalian subjects was published in 2007 [89],... 

OMICS technologies encompass genomics, proteomics, metabonomics, and pharmacogenomics [5]. Other descriptive terms (for example, transcriptomics, toxicoproteomics, and toxicogenetics) have been used intermittently, but most... 

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