Pulmonomics: Omics Approaches for Understanding Pulmonary Diseases

This book comprehensively reviews various omics approaches like  genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics for  understanding pulmonary disease at molecular and systems levels.  The  initial chapters present the pathogenesis of major pulmonary diseases,  namely, obstructive diseases, restrictive diseases, vascular diseases,  infectious diseases, and neoplastic carcinoma. The book chapters provide  current information about the role of the microbiome and applications  of medical imaging, bioinformatics tools, and databases for diagnosis  and designing treatment strategies against complex lung diseases.  Further, the book discusses omics technologies to identify biomarkers  for the early diagnosis and prognosis of pulmonary diseases. Finally,  the book elucidates the multi-omics approaches and data integration  using mathematical modeling for insights into the disease etiology  towards improving the prognostics and predictive accuracy of disease  phenotypes.