NEPAD offers a possible forum to bring the subject of genomics-related biotechnology onto the political agenda, and provides a means of informing African leaders of genomics and its relevance to improving health and development in Africa.
Participants included from those who knew nothing of the subject matter through to experts in the field of genomics (61% compliance rate), 72% of participants answered every single question.
The Directors of the workshop have developed and taught courses and workshops covering the subjects of metabolomics, genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics and biostatistics.
In addition, the in silico analysis revealed several patterns that could be the subject of future functional genomics studies.
'Royal Gala' has been the subject of a number of genomics studies, including a large-scale expressed sequencing tag (EST) sequencing project [ 33] and a microarray study of the fruit development [ 30] and fruit ripening [ 34].
The sessions were organized so that participants were first introduced to the subject of the "new science" of genomics, and were then instructed in areas including national innovation systems, business models, intellectual property rights, international conventions and regulatory structures, ethics, and the role of networks in facilitating dialogue, advocacy and policy making.
The case involves Michael Snyder, a geneticist who was both the lead author and the subject of a study on genomics reported in the journal Cell.
In the last decade, model plants have been the subject of rapid advances in genomics, including the completion of the sequence of both Arabidopsis thaliana [ 1] and rice [ 2, 3].
Several features of Daphnia biology make them an interesting subject of investigation in comparative functional genomics.
In the 1950's when B. juncea replaced B. nigra as the mustard crop of choice in Asia, B. nigra was effectively abandoned with regards to crop improvement [ 50] and has been the subject of limited breeding, genetics and genomics research compared to the other two diploid species of U's triangle [ 51].
Individual data are now being increasingly collected by a variety of means on a range of subjects, such as genomics, medical imaging, clinical diagnoses and physiological sensing.
