Practical Guide: Genomic Techniques and How to Apply Them to Marine Questions

In recent years, modern high-throughput techniques in genome and post-genome research have made a marked impact on the marine sciences. Today, massively parallel DNA sequencing and hybridization approaches allow the identification of not only the gene repertoire but also the gene regulatory networks that function within an organism. The huge amounts of data acquired from such experiments can only be handled with intensive bioinformatics support that has to provide an adequate infrastructure for storing and analysing these data. Bioinformatics has to deliver efficient data analysis algorithms, user-friendly tools and software applications, as well as extensive hardware infrastructure to deal with these genome-scale analyses.