Figure 1.

An illustration of the power of functional genomics, as used in the publicity for the meeting. The top two 'experiments' reveal the same results, but from the global views below it is clear that the pictures are different. By analogy, classical molecular biology gives information on only a single gene while functional genomics gives information on all of the genes in the organism. Reproduced with permission from Matthias W. Hentze and Petra Riedinger.