Environment- or Exposome-wide assessment studies (EWAS) |
Studies that collect multiple kinds of exposure data from multiple sources which are then related to health effects |
Exposome |
Concept describing the totality of exposure experienced by an individual during their life and the health impact of those exposures (1) |
Exposome informatics |
Data management framework to deal with large multi-scale data sources in exposome studies (32) |
Genome |
The genetic material of an organism, encoded in DNA and including both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA (68) |
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) |
Studies that evaluate markers across the genome to elucidate associations with diseases |
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) |
Systems that manage geographic data (33) |
Metabolome |
Sum of all low molecular weight metabolites present in a biological sample (69) |
Omics technologies |
The collective characterization of components and measurement of molecules from a biological field of study, which involves a large scale data acquisition system that can be used to measure biological states or responses. Examples include the genome (DNA), transcriptome (RNA), and proteome (proteins) |
Phenome |
All of the phenotypes of a cell, tissue, or organism |
Proteome |
The full set of proteins encoded by a genome (68) |
Reality mining |
Analysis of behavioral and self-reported data extracted from social networks and other portable devices’ applications (36) |
Sensors |
Devices that measures an event or change. There are many diverse types of sensors available |
Total exposure |
All exposures experienced by an individual |
Transcriptome |
Complete set of RNA transcripts produced by the genome at any one time (67) |