Contents
Chapter 1 Next generation Sequencing NGS
Lesson 1 From Convention to Second generation Sequencing
Lesson 2 Application of Next generation Sequencing
Lesson 3 First Baby Born after Full Genetic Screening of Embryos
Chapter 2 Big Data
Lesson 1 Too Much Information: Better Health from Big Data
Lesson 2 Life Sciences in Big Data Era
Lesson 3 Big Data Meets Public Health
Chapter 3 Personal Genomics Personalized Medicine
Lesson 1 The Advent of Personal Genome Sequencing
Lesson 2 The Future of Personal Genomics
Lesson 3 Obstacles to the Translation of Personalized Medicine into the Clinic
Chapter 4 Animal Plant Genome Research and Its Agricultural Applications
Lesson 1 Plant and Animal Sequencing
Lesson 2 Animal Code: Our Favorite Genomes
Lesson 3 Sequencing of AnimalPlant Genomes and Its Application
Chapter 5 Metagenomics
Lesson 1 Metagenomics: The Science of Biological Diversity
Lesson 2 How Gut Bacteria Help Make Us Fat and Thin
Lesson 3 Next generation Sequencing Propels Environmental Genomics to the Front Line of Research
Chapter 6 Genomes and Biodiversity
Lesson 1 Genome 10K: a Proposal to Obtain Whole Genome Sequence for 10000
Vertebrate Species
Lesson 2 Biodiversity,Genomes,and DNA Sequence Databases
Lesson 3 Examples of Genome Transcriptome Projects
Chapter 7 Biobanking
Lesson 1 Current Status,Challenges,Policies Bioethics of Biobanks
Lesson 2 Building Better Biobank
Lesson 3 Biobank Promises to Pinpoint the Cause of Disease
Chapter 8 Big Resources in Biobanks
Lesson 1 Specimen Types for DNA Net Earth
Lesson 2 Specimen Collections in U.S. Biobanks: Results from a National Survey
Lesson 3 Examples of Aquatic Biobanks Worldwide
Glossary
References