Talk:Genomics
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Note: There are two completely different ways that the similarity of genes of two individuals can be measured; identity by descent and identity by sequence. Identity by descent is determined by pedigree, while the other measures of similarity are based upon sequence similarity. Sequence similarity can be measured in a variety of ways, which will produce very different results. While I can't say how genomic similarities were measured for those examples in the article, it does seem that they were all measured in the same way...except that Gorilla should be closer to Human than Mouse. If I get around to it, I could make a table with different measurements of how "close" we are to various species. However, I'd probably ditch most of the data that already exists because most of these species have not had their genomes sequenced. I'll definitely keep Chimps. adam
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I added a link to the PLOS primer on Comparative Genomics. Should that link be in the Comparative Genomics section, or at the end of the article with "External Links"? adam
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A brief statement of how genomics differs from genetics might be helpful for people who have heard of genetics, but not genomics, and might otherwise assume they are synonyms.
Growth of omics - dropping glycome
It is important to back up statements like that made about glycome with facts. Glycobiology is far and away the preferred term over glycomics. Glycome will perhaps gain in popularity over time but it is not a widely used term in the long running field of glycobiology and it's still a buzzword. To back this up with some numbers take a look at List_of_omics_topics_in_biology where I've done some information gathering on the prevalence of these and related terms in the published literature. I'm basing my statement not only on that (incomplete) piece of work, but also on personal scientific experience. Courtland 02:21, 2005 Mar 2 (UTC)