Gubb Ewa, Matthiesen Rune
Bioinformatics, Parque Technológico de Bizkaia, Derio, Spain.
Methods Mol Biol. 2010;593:1-23. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60327-194-3_1.
Exploiting the potential of omics for clinical diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic purposes has currently been receiving a lot of attention. In recent years, most of the effort has been put into demonstrating the possible clinical applications of the various omics fields. The cost-effectiveness analysis has been, so far, rather neglected. The cost of omics-derived applications is still very high, but future technological improvements are likely to overcome this problem. In this chapter, we will give a general background of the main omics fields and try to provide some examples of the most successful applications of omics that might be used in clinical diagnosis and in a therapeutic context.
