OMICS

Debmalya Barh, Kenneth Blum, Margaret A. Madigan

• SECTION I: Methodology and ApplicationBioinformatics: A Brief Introduction to Changing Trends in Modern BiologyNutrigenomicsOmics Approaches in Toxicology Research and Biomedical ApplicationsStem Cells: Basics and Therapeutic ApplicationsEmerging Trends of Nanotechnology in Omics-Based Drug Discovery and DevelopmentMagnetic Nanoparticles in Biomedical ApplicationsHigh-Throughput Screening in Medical Diagnosis and PrognosisHigh-Throughput Omics: The Application of Automated High-Throughput Methods and Systems for Solutions in Systems BiologySafety in Diagnostic Imaging Techniques Used in OmicsSECTION II: Empirical ResearchMolecular Genetics of Human Cancers: Modulation of the Tumor Suppressor Function of RB1 Gene Product in Human Vestibular SchwannomasForward Genetics Approach in Genomics: Functional Identification of Unknown GenesProteomics of Phagosomal Pathogens: Lessons from Listeria monocytogens and New Tools in ImmunologySECTION III: Computational and Systems BiologyIn a Quest to Uncover Governing Principles of Cellular Networks: A Systems Biology PerspectiveIntermolecular Interaction in Biological SystemsImplanted Brain-Machine Interfaces in Rats: A Modern Application of NeuromicsSECTION IV: TherapeuticsPharmacogenomics in Development of Disease-Specific Therapeutic StrategyOmics Approaches in Cancer Biomarker and Targeted Anticancer Drug DiscoveryRecent Advances in MicroRNA Expression Profiling Toward a Molecular Anatomy of Tumorigenesis and Applications for Diagnosis, Prognosis, and TherapeuticsMarine Metabolomics in Cancer ChemotherapyGenome-Wide Association Studies of Type 2 Diabetes: Current Status, Open Challenges, and Future PerspectivesCardiac Channelopathies: Applications of Genomics and Proteomics in Diagnosis and Therapy Toward an Omic Perspective on Infectious Disease and Its Therapy: Integrating Immunoinformatics, Immunomics, and VaccinomicsNeuroAIDS and Omics of HIV VprNeurogenetics and Nutrigenomics of Reward Deficiency SyndromeSECTION V: Future PerspectiveFuture Perspective: Paving a Path to Optimization of Health

… this book will be intensively useful to scientists from both academia and industry, teachers and professors, health professionals, and mostly students, who should be encouraged to study and learn from its wisdom. —From the Foreword by Debasis Bagchi, PhD, MACN, CNS, MAIChE, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, Texas