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Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci.2025.14(4): 146-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2025.1404.018


Decoding the Microbial World: An Introduction to Microbial Omics
Ankita Banerjee, Rojina Khatun, Sudeshna Sengupta and Malavika Bhattacharya*
Department of Biotechnology, Techno India University, EM-4, Salt Lake, Sector- V, Kolkata- 700091 (India)
*Corresponding author
Abstract:

The microbial world is one of the most crucial parts of the ecosystem on Earth. It has a significant contribution to our human health along with several other organisms and the functioning of our environment. Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and metagenomics are all included in the new discipline of microbial omics, which provides strong instruments to decipher the intricate relationships between microbial populations and their physiological functions. Recent advances in multi-omics and integrated omics techniques revolutionized our understanding of microbial diversity. These techniques enable the investigation of uncultivable species' metabolic processes and interactions between species, thus having major ramifications for industrial biotechnology, customized medicine, disease modeling, and bioremediation. Notwithstanding the above developments, several problems related to data integration and standardization, together with the considerable cost of the omics technologies, persist as barriers to broader application. Their overcoming will result in further intensified research that makes it possible for the connection of microbial phenotype to genotype and opens new ways into environmental and health sciences research.


Keywords: Microbial omics, Microbial diversity, physiological functions,  Metabolic processes

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