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Open Access 01-12-2015 | Review

Only one health, and so many omics

Authors: Nives Pećina-Šlaus, Marko Pećina

Published in: Cancer Cell International | Issue 1/2015

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The development of new approaches based on wide profiling methods in studying biological and medical systems is bringing large amounts of data on a daily basis.

The causes of complex diseases have been directed to the genome examination bringing formidable knowledge. We can study genome, but also proteome, exome, transcriptome, epigenome, metabolome, and newcomers too such as microbiome, connectome and exposome. The title of this editorial is paraphrasing the famous saying of Victor Schlichter from Buenos Aires children hospital in Argentina who said “How unfair! Only one health, and so many diseases”. Today there is indeed a whole lot of omics. We think that we are lucky to have all the omics possible, but we also wanted to stress the importance of future holistic approach in integrating the knowledge omics has rewarded us.

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Title: Only one health, and so many omics
Authors: Nives Pećina-Šlaus
Marko Pećina
Publication date: 01-12-2015
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Cancer Cell International / Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1475-2867
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12935-015-0212-2

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