Metabolomics, Genomics and Proteomics

Transcriptomics

The biological processes between different levels of “omics” are highly complex, a combined analysis of metaboliteand gene expression data will help discover and evaluate the underlying pathway mechanisms and identify genes that influence the metabolome. Transcriptomic studies measure the simultaneous expression of up to thousands of genes and can be used to identify which genes are up- or down-regulated under certain conditions. Metabolomic studies provide information on the metabolites found within a biological sample. These two branches seek to uncover the underlying systems biology and when combined they can be successful in predicting gene functions or identifying gene-metabolite associations.