Re: Directed evolution

gruebait <gruebait@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DK remarked in news:fkpfal$1rp$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

feedbackdroid <feedbackdroid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some of us feel that the future of biology is systems
biology

Oh, the new kid on the block in the buzzwords department.
Just looked Wikipedia article on it. LOL, hilarious.
Apparently, techniques associated with it are:
Transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics,
glycomics,
interactomics, fluxomics (!!!) and biomics.

I am shocked at the omission of another brand new
dispicpline of science - "lipidomics" :-)

DK


Wikipedia...

Perhaps there is some mention of it here:
http://sysbiophd.med.harvard.edu/introduction.php

Well, I looked at the Sillabus for the course
"A Systems Approach to Biology SB200" :
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic194429.files/sb200_syllabus_fall07.pdf

Just as I expected all along, it is a semi-random mixture of coursework
(derived simply from lecturers' specialization) - all of which have been
happily covered by Biophysics and Biochemistry programs for decades.

There is no more coherency to this incarnation of "Systems Biology"
than to the other meaningless buzzwords of the past such as
"Bioorganic chemistry" (which is rumored to have been invented solely
for the purpose of establishing new research institute).

DK

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