Wiwanitkit, who is not further identified, continues the movement to wrap all knowledge up into a single word, which then can presumably be chanted by scientists to bring about the end of the universe. Unpacking this particular segment shows the topic to be how the manipulation--gathering, storing, retrieving, processing--of information about biochemistry can be applied to medicine. Of special interest are the new-omics specialties: genomics, proteonomics, transcriptomics, lipidomics, and so on. Other topics include database modeling and important medical databases, and gene expression and ontology. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
