How is genomics different from proteomics?
This is a continuum. Genomics doesn’t neatly stop at some place and proteomics conveniently begin at another place…. The field of study devoted to identifying genes, discovering genes, and determining gene sequences has been labeled genomics. The field of understanding the functions of those genes, their correlation with a disease, [is] functional genomics. To fully understand the variance of a gene, the number of proteins that any particular gene makes, the cell cycle under which genes make proteins, how they interact with one another, [that is] proteomics. Proteins are almost always targets for antibodies or small-molecule therapeutics, so proteomics is much closer to the disease state — to where you want to be to treat disease more effectively. Q: What is the state of the field? A: It’s an emerging field and it will stand on the shoulders of the gene-sequencing information. Now that we have genetic databases as a backdrop, we can build on that to start to understand what genes do
