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Essay / Research methodologies: different types of research...
208).Omics Method-Omics Technologies – “Omics refers to the collective technologies used to explore the roles, relationships and actions of the different types of molecules that make up the cells of an organism” (Merelli, 2014, p. 4). Computational method – “involves the use of computers to study scientific problems and complements the areas of theory and experiment in traditional scientific research…to gain an understanding of science primarily through the use and analysis of models mathematics on high-performance computers” (Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., 2000, paragraph 1) Computer simulation method – “provides both qualitative and quantitative information on many phenomena that are too complex to be treated by analytical methods or too complex. expensive or dangerous to study by experiments” (Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., 2000, para. 1) iCloud method – “Cloud computing in particular promises to solve the problems of storing and analyzing big data in many fields of bioinformatics” (Merelli, 2014, p.