Title

An insight into cyanobacterial genomics - a perspective

Authors

Palaniswamy Thanga Velan Lakshmi*

Affiliation

Phytomatics Laboratory, Department Of Bioinformatics; Bharathiar University, Coimbatore-641 046

Email

lakshmiptv@yahoo.co.in; * Corresponding author

Article Type

Views & Challenges

Date

received March 30, 2006; revised April 06, 2007; accepted April 10, 2007; published online May 20, 2007

Abstract

At the turn of the millennium, cyanobacteria deserve attention to be reviewed to understand the past, present and future. The advent of post genomic research, which encompasses functional genomics, structural genomics, transcriptomics, pharmacogenomics, proteomics and metabolomics that allows a systematic wide approach for biological system studies. Thus, by exploiting genomic and associated protein information through in silico analyses, the fledging information that are generated by biotechnological analyses, could be well extrapolated to fill in the lacuna of scarce information on cyanobacteria. This paper attempts to highlight the perspectives available and awakens researcher to concentrate in the field of cyanobacterial informatics.

Keywords

cyanobacteria; genomics; bioinformatics; databases; phylogeny

Citation

Lakshmi, Bioinformation 2(1): 8-11 (2007)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.