Mainly, the genome project has fundamentally changed the way in which we approach questions in biology. The technology that the genome project has enabled, rather than the data it has produced, has induced the most profound impact on our conduct of biological research. In particular, functional genomics approaches, suchs as DNA microarrays, proteomics and metabolomics have greatly increased the rate at which we can generate data on biological systems allowing us, to begin to observe on a molecular level the holistic response of an organism to a particular stimulus (Quackenbush, 2006)
