Genomics
 

The fourth IRT focuses on Genomics research: advances in high-throughput analysis of microbial, plant and animal genomes, powered in large part by the integration of engineering, biology and computer science, have over the past decade revolutionised the field of genomics and with it, all associated fields of the Life Sciences. Questions that were previously considered intractable to scientific investigation can now be addressed at unprecedented levels of detail and scope. Importantly, "post-genomics" fields such as transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and population genomics have unlocked the biological functions encoded in genomes and are now forming the basis for innovation and application of genomics information in Agriculture and Health Sciences.