摘要：The complete sequencing of the human genome has ushered in a new era of systems biology referred to as omics technology. The term omics refers to the comprehensive analysis of biological systems. Novel omics technologies and bioinformatic tools offer enormous potential to research the complex relationship between nutrition, food and metabolism. In the recent years, a variety of omics subdisciplines have began to emerge, with their own set of instruments, techniques, reagents and software. 'Omics' tools and technologies have dramatically changed the experimental approaches by which complex biological systems can be characterized. The omics technology that has driven these new areas of research consists of DNA and protein microarrays, mass spectrometry and a number of other instruments that enable high-throughput analyses. An overview of omics technologies in food research, which focuses on recent applications of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics in food science, is presented in this paper.
关键词：Genomics; transcriptomics; proteomics; metabolomics; system biology
