Appearing in the 1980s, its main aim is to unravel the full DNA sequences and to provide genome mapping of a variety of species, including humans. One of its main tools in this regard is bioinformatics. It consists of two branches: structural genomics that attempts to determine the three-dimensional structures of proteins, and functional genomics dedicated to identifying the biological functions of genes and their products. Genomics has a long and rather complicated history.
See Bio-X project, Bioinformatics, Caenorhabditis (C.) elegant (or nematode), DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), Genome, Human Genome Project (HGP), Nucleic acid