Foodomics
Foodomics
Foodomics (pronounced: foo-doh-miks) is a discipline that studies the food and nutrition domains through the application and integration of advanced -omics technologies to improve consumer's well-being, health, and knowledge.
Etymology
The term "Foodomics" is a portmanteau of "food" and "-omics", a suffix used in molecular biology to denote a field of study in biology such as genomics, proteomics or metabolomics. The term was first used in the early 21st century.
Definition
Foodomics is a relatively new discipline that applies comprehensive high throughput technologies for the study of food. It involves the use of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics to study the food network and the dietary effects on health.
Related Terms
- Genomics: The study of the full genetic complement of an organism (the genome). Genomics involves the sequencing and analysis of genomes through uses of high throughput DNA sequencing and bioinformatics to assemble and analyze the function and structure of entire genomes.
- Proteomics: The large-scale study of proteins, particularly their structures and functions. Proteomics is an important component of functional genomics.
- Metabolomics: The scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites, the small molecule intermediates and products of metabolism.
- Transcriptomics: The study of the transcriptome—the complete set of RNA transcripts that are produced by the genome, under specific circumstances or in a specific cell—using high-throughput methods, such as microarray analysis.
- Bioinformatics: An interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Foodomics
- Wikipedia's article - Foodomics
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