ABSTRACT
Review Ahmad M.Fakhoury/Gary A.Payne North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
North Carolina, USA
1INTRODUCTION
In recent years, we have witnessed a real revolution in the biological sciences with the advent of powerful technologies and applications. These new technologies have ushered biology into the “genomics era” where studies involving whole genomes are possible. In fact, the beauty of this technology is that it transcends the answering of old questions and challenges us to formulate and address even more complex biological questions. For example, the quality and the amount of data generated through the use of these techniques allow us to study not only the complex metabolic pathways in an individual, but through comparative genomics it also allows us to gain a better understanding of the evolution of development and metabolic pathways, and to determine the genetic relatedness among organisms.
