Genomics
The study of the genome provides researchers with a rich variety of information, for which DNA sequence information is the 'raw data'. Through the study of genomics, researchers aim to investigate a broad range of scientific questions, for example:
- How do genes relate to disease?
- What diseases am I at risk of?
- How closely does a genome predict the risk of a disease?
- Why is cancer in one person more aggressive than in another person?
- Why does a specific drug work for one patient but not another?
- Why do different patients need different doses of a drug for it to be effective?
- What is this disease? What subtype of the disease is it?
- What is this infectious organism? How is this infectious organism evolving?
- How do I predict efficacy/adverse events for a patient?
- Can I rescue a failed drug? How do I de-risk drug development and approval?
- How did humans and other species evolve?
- What were the migration patterns of early humans?
- Can this organism be changed so that it can manufacture a drug or produce energy?
- Can the yield of this crop be improved?
For information about Oxford Nanopore's DNA sequencing technology click here.
