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2.2 Rise of the Omics

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    • How have advancements in omic technologies (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics) enabled us to study small, hard-to-collect, and/or rare venomous animals? How will these technologies dramatically expand the reservoir of venoms that can be explored in drug discovery?

    • It’d allow more dimensions of biochemical analysis to get more information out of smaller samples and would continue to do so for less studied venoms as well as the metabolism of those venoms.

    • RNA is extracted from the source. This is put into the OMEC.

      This allows the 20 amino acids to be identified.

      The way the OMEC revolutionizes can be seen in a bio of Saddam Hussein and his chemical weapons. Possibly natural venoms are better tools than man-made.

      Drug discoveries go to libraries when the venom is in OMEC. This allows world wide researches, often not on target to occur.

      This has huge applications, some genocidal.

    • la extraccion de pequeñas muestras, mediante ampliacion genomica con PCR, podrian ser de mucha utilidad

    • These technologies have greatly increased the efficiency of proteomics because they allow us to study smaller molecules with more precision. This results in more potential drugs due to the increased findings.

    • These new and modern type of technologies we can study smaller molecules and samples with bigger efficiency

    • Does this mean it will be easier to extract venom from “smaller” creatures such as insects. Are there any venoms or fluids from insects which is repellant to insects? Like not mortal but “disgusting” for insects so they leave the premesis? Are those regarded as venoms?

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