Hajduch and his colleagues in Ukraine conducted a proteomic study (examining the structure and function of proteins) of the plants and found that the seeds harvested inside the exclusion zone compared favorably with ones grown in non-contaminated soil outside.

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Big data and analytics are playing indispensable roles in fostering those enhanced relationships as they vastly enrich the remarkable but isolated wonder of genome-on-a-thumb-drive by giving healthcare providers and drug makers the ability to explore and analyze genomic and proteomic data not just for an individual but in aggregate for millions of people.

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