Postgenomic research

Exploring the biological information content in carbohydrates is one of the current focuses of postgenomic research and technology development. Biophysical,... 

In systems where the correlation holds, physical chemists can analyze the energetics of association and perform computer simulations of the recognition process based on this analysis. While still far from satisfactory, structure-based theoretical approaches to macromolecular recognition— another subject of our chapter—represent an active field of research with an important future in the postgenomic era. In a matter of years, large-scale efforts in protein structure determination are expected to provide... 

Polymer microchips are expected to conhibute strongly in biological analysis in the postgenome era, especially in the field of proteomics. Considerable research has already focused on separations, the use of new materials, and transferring conventional analysis methods to a microchip platform, but more work remains to be done to enable the exploitation of the full potential of plastic microdevices. In particular, the use of conventional device-bonding techniques has limited the broad application of polymer microchips. 

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