Welcome to the Phenomics Journal

Abstract

The term 'phenomics', first coined by Dr. Steven A. Garan in 1996, describes the measurement of phenomes. The phenome is a set of measurable traits, including the physical, chemical and biological traits of individuals and populations, that result from the complex interactions of genes, epigenetics, symbiotic microorganisms, diet and environmental exposures. The high-throughput approaches implied by the term 'deep phenotyping' have attracted much attention in the fields of functional genomics, pharmaceutical science, biomedical engineering, phylogenetics and disease genomics in humans and model organisms.

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