Note
The prepared student of biology in this new millennium understands that we are now in the era
of genomics, which is the study of the complete heredity information or blueprint in the
biochemical form of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of any given organism. A wealth of this
macromolecular (DNA, RNA and protein) sequence data now floods our databases due to the
improving technology of data generation, such as pyrosequencing, single-molecule DNA sequencing, mass spectrophotometric sequencing and other methods on the horizon.