Genomics, Proteomics and Cytomics

Introduction

Exploring the organizational levels of biology
Figure 1: Exploring the organizational levels of human biology.
A linked and overlapping cascade of exploratory systems
each
exploring -omes at different organizational levels of biological systems
in the end allows for creating an interconnected knowledge architecture of entire cytomes.
The approach leads to the creation of an Organism Architecture (OA)
in order to capture the multi-level dynamics of an organism.

We are currently in a transition stage from genomics to proteomics towards system level cytomics. With the increasing availability of tools and instruments, such as High Content Screening, and molecular medicine, etc. to study penomena of increasing spatial, spectral and temporal dimensionality and complexity at high speed and quality, quantifying and analysing biological phenomena of a higher order of complexity will be possible at high speed. The tools to extract high order feature spaces and extract knowledge and understanding from biological levels of complexity previously out of reach bring us closer to capturing and understanding the intrahuman ecosystem.

Personal note

My personal interest in cytomics, grew out of my own work on High Content Screening, as you can see in:

Lists of Links

Organisms

Model Organisms

Cytomics

Cell Biology

Anatomy and Histology

Proteomics

Genomics

Genome Databases

Protocols and Instrumentation

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Other webpages

*A Human Cytome Project - an idea
*Biomedical Structural Research
*Software Engineering for Science
*Molecular Biology
*Libraries and Literature
*Countries, Culture
*Philosophy
*Other interesting things

Acknowledgments

I am indebted, for their pioneering work in automated digital microscopy, to Frans Cornelissen, Hugo Geerts, Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Roger Nuyens, Rony Nuydens, Luk Ver Donck and their colleagues. Many thanks also to the pioneers of Nanovid microscopy, Marc De Brabander, Jan De Mey, Hugo Geerts, Marc Moeremans, Rony Nuydens and their colleagues. I also want to thank all those scientists who have helped me with general information and articles, I hope I always quoted everyone properly when possible.

The author of this webpage is Peter and my resume can be found here.