Capillary electrophoresis at the omics level: towards systems biology

Electrophoresis. 2006 Jan;27(1):97-110. doi: 10.1002/elps.200500511.

Abstract

Emerging systems biology aims at integrating the enormous amount of existing omics data in order to better understand their functional relationships at a whole systems level. These huge datasets can be obtained through advances in high-throughput, sensitive, precise, and accurate analytical instrumentation and technological innovation. Separation sciences play an important role in revealing biological processes at various omic levels. From the perspective of systems biology, CE is a strong candidate for high-throughput, sensitive data generation which is capable of tackling the challenges in acquiring qualitative and quantitative knowledge through a system-level study. This review focuses on the applicability of CE to systems-based analytical data at the genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic levels.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Electrophoresis, Capillary*
  • Genomics / methods*
  • Humans
  • Pharmacology / methods
  • Proteomics / methods*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods