Drug Discovery and Genomics.pptVIP

Drug Discovery and Genomics How the Sequencing of the Human Genome and Related Developments has Impacted Drug Discovery The Promise The Concern Bottom Line Topics What is Genomics ? What is the relationship between genes and disease? What are the steps in developing a drug? What impact has genomics had on the process of drug development? What is Genomics ? Study of information stored in the genome structural and functional information Structural genomics — the sequence Information is encoded linearly and digitally in four coding molecules-bases Three bases = codon = amino acid A number o