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Perspectives Development of Genomic Sciences in Mexico: A Good Start and a Long Way to Go * Rafael Palacios , Julio Collado-Vides Introduction Center for Genomic Sciences at UNAM (CCG; http://www.ccg. The most important revolutionary frontier of the biological unam.mx/), formerly the CIFN (see below). Such projects are sciences in the present century is derived from the knowledge related to the evolution and microevolution, the of the complete genomic information of different organisms. transcriptomics and proteomics, the dynamics, and the The discoveries derived from genomics are generating a new comparison of syntenic genes as a commonly evolved group paradigm in biology, substituting gene-centered biology with of the genomes of rhizobial organisms [4–6]. The study of the a new level of integration: genome-centered biology. This dynamics of the R. etli genome recently led to a research line new concept is the basis for potential developments of great aimed at better understanding the dynamics of the human social impact in different fields such as medicine, agriculture, genome [7]. Another project at CCG is related to the and industry, to mention only a few. functional genomics of the host legume of R. etli, the common The knowledge necessary for this new area is derived from bean plant P. vulgaris . This project, known as ‘‘Phaseomics,’’ is different disciplines, mainly mathematics, computer sciences, being pursued by an international consortium initially and biology. Here we refer to the integration of these proposed by CCG and the University of Geneva [8]. An disciplines as