Breeding of Vegetable, Spice and Tuber crops (2+1)

Applications of biometrics

• The biometric principles and tools can be applied in the following areas.
• Public health, including epidemiology, health services research, nutrition, and environmental health
• Design and analysis of clinical trials in medicine
• Population genetics, and statistical genetics in order to link variation in genotype with a variation in phenotype. This has been used in agriculture to improve crops and farm animals (animal breeding).
• In biomedical research, this work can assist in finding candidates for gene alleles that can cause or influence predisposition to disease in human genetics
• Analysis of genomics data, for example from microarray or proteomics experiments. Often concerning diseases or disease stages.
• Ecology, ecological forecasting
• Biological sequence analysis
• Systems biology for gene network inference or pathways analysis