Omics methods in plant research

Abstract

The usefulness of computers in biological research has been identified already in the sixties of the twentieth century. Subsequent technical progress allowed development of high-throughput experimental methods in biology. Thanks to them, one can obtain a very large amount of data in a short time – even few days. However, with this progress came a necessity of development of data management, data quality control and analysis methods. Consequently, modern biology to a great extent rely on informatics and at the intersection of these fields emerged bioinformatics. The aim of this article is a review of modern high-throughput methods in plant science, and relevant bioinformatic tools.