How terms were chosen & defined Audience: Not just for scientists Scope: Selective (15 - 40 definitions each) glossaries focus on words and phrases relevant to biotechnology and pharmaceutical sciences, and not easily found in dictionaries (such as or microarrays or transcriptomics ). Some definitions are evolving as genomic, whole genome and molecular implications are incorporated into existing words (like gene or phenotype). Others need a genomic context (profiling or scoring). In- depth glossaries include additional specialized terms for some categories, and selected organizations, government agencies and cryptic acronyms. Terminology relevant to genomics comes from a wide variety of disciplines: analytical chemistry, biochemistry, bioinformatics, biocomputing, biomechanics, biophysics, biotechnology, cell biology, clinical and research medicine, developmental and structural biology, electrochemistry, electronics, engineering, enzymology, epidemiology, imaging, immunology, mathematics, microbiology, molecular biology, optics, pharmacology, public health, statistics, toxicology, virology and aspects of business, chaos theory, ethics and law are all relevant. Few people (if any) can be truly interdisciplinary and expert in all of these subjects. We all need to learn more to participate in informed public debate. Genomics Glossaries reviews
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