The New Omics Era into Systems Approaches: What Is the Importance of Separation Techniques?

Flávia da Silva Zandonadi; Fábio Santos Neves; Elisa Castañeda Santa Cruz; Alessandra Sussuilini; Ana Valéria Colnaghi Simionato

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77252-9_1

The New Omics Era into Systems Approaches: What Is the Importance of Separation Techniques?

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2021:1336:1-15. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-77252-9_1.

Authors

Flávia da Silva Zandonadi¹, Fábio Santos Neves¹, Elisa Castañeda Santa Cruz¹, Alessandra Sussuilini^{1

2}, Ana Valéria Colnaghi Simionato³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
² National Institute of Science and Technology for Bioanalytics, Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
³ Analytical Chemistry Department, University of Campinas, Institute of Chemistry, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. avsimionato@unicamp.br.

PMID: 34628624
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77252-9_1

Abstract

Omics sciences have been facing challenges in different fields, especially in life sciences. One of these challenges involves assessing biology into systems interpretation. With the advance of genomics, molecular biology has been projected into the realm of systems biology. In a different direction, systems approaches are making definitive strides toward scientific understanding and biotechnological applications. Separation techniques provided meaningful progress in the omics era, conducting the classical molecular biology to contemporary systems biology. In this introductory chapter, the relevance of these techniques to the development of different omics sciences, within the systems biology context, will be discussed.

Keywords: Genomics; Metabolomics; Proteomics; Separation techniques; Systems biology.

MeSH terms

Genomics*
Molecular Biology
Systems Biology*