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. 2023 Apr 28;143(4):475–495. doi: 10.1007/s00439-023-02560-2

Table 2.

Summary of OMICs techniques

OMICs layer Molecular aspect assayed Name of assay
Genomics DNA sequence

Sanger Sequencing (Sanger et al. 1977)

Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) (Lionel et al. 2018)

Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) (Lee et al. 2014)

Microarray-based Genotyping

Epigenomics DNA methylation Methylation Microarrays(Chater-Diehl et al. 2021), Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing (RRBS) (Meissner et al. 2008), Whole Genome Bisulfite Sequencing (WGBS) (Olova et al. 2018), Methyl Cytosine sequencing (MethylC-seq) (Lister et al. 2008), Methyl DNA ImmunoPrecipitation analyzed by sequencing (MeDIP-seq) (Down et al. 2008), Methyl-CpG Binding Domain-isolated genomic DNA analyzed by sequencing (MBD-seq) (Serre et al. 2010)
Genomic coordinates of Histone Post-Translational Modifications or Chromatin-associated proteins Chromatin ImmunoPrecipitation and Sequencing (ChIP-seq) (Johnson et al. 2007)
Chromatin Accessibility DNase-seq (Crawford et al. 2006), Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with Sequencing (ATAC-seq) (Buenrostro et al. 2013), Formaldehyde-Assisted Isolation of Regulatory Elements and Sequencing (FAIRE-seq) (Giresi et al. 2007), MNase-seq (Chereji et al. 2019)
Chromatin Conformation Hi-C(Lieberman-Aiden et al. 2009)
Chromatin Conformation specific for Chromatin-associated proteins Chromatin Interaction Analysis with Paired-End-Tag sequencing (ChIA-PET) (Fullwood et al. 2009)
Genomic coordinates of Histone Post-Translational Modifications or Chromatin-associated proteins Cleavage Under Targets and Release Using Nuclease (CUT&RUN) (Skene and Henikoff 2017), Cleavage Under Targets and Tagmentation (CUT&Tag) (Kaya-Okur et al. 2019)
Transcriptomics RNA sequence Short-read RNA sequencing (Lowe et al. 2017), Pacbio's Long-read Isoform sequencing (ISO-seq) (Leung et al. 2021), Oxford Nanopore's Long-read Sequencing (Wang et al. 2021)
Proteomics Proteins Western Blots (Pillai-Kastoori et al. 2020), Flow cytometry(Bendall et al. 2012), Mass Spectrometry (MS) (Yates et al. 2009), Multiplexed ImmunoHistoChemistry (IHC) / ImmunoFluorescence (IF) (Tan et al. 2020), Protein Microarrays(Chandra et al. 2011), SOMAscan, a High-throughput proteomics platform(Kim et al. 2018), Proximity Ligation Assay (PLA) (Weibrecht et al. 2010), Proximity Extension Assay (PEA) (Assarsson et al. 2014)
Metabolomics Metabolites Mass Spectrometry (MS) (Perez-Ramirez and Christofk 2021), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) (Perez-Ramirez and Christofk 2021), Biochemical assays(Perez-Ramirez and Christofk 2021), Image-based technologies (Perez-Ramirez and Christofk 2021), Cellomics Cellinsight High Content Screening Platform (Ardashov et al. 2019), Cellomics ArrayScan platform (Williams et al. 2006), Opera™ LX (PerkinElmer) automated confocal microscopy system (Rosato et al. 2021)

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