Abstract

Let’s assume that you have been taken to a place you have never been before, and are not sure how you got there. The first thing you might do is look at a Google map , which may reveal several roads leading to the place, each with outlying intersections and roads from other towns. Different overlays may reveal varying terrain, weather or road conditions throughout the region leading to your destination. Now, imagine a health problem affecting a population at your destination, and the plexus of pathways (routes), biochemical networks (towns), function (traffic flow) and other influential conditions (terrain, road upkeep, weather, etc.) that may lead to the health problem, overlaid on the map. Omics technologies comprise sets of molecular mapping tools for each overlay that can help us understand and navigate to or from states of health, including nutriture. This breakthrough approach has become possible due to advances in the development and application of high-throughput technologies, which allow us to analyze large-scale biological data to form new molecular maps to health and disease.

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