New approach to Genomics Experiments Taking Advantage of Virtual Laboratory System

Specialized software, on-line tools and computational resources are very common in contemporary science. One of the exem- plary domain is genomics - a new branch of science that developed rapidly in the last decade. As the genome research is very complex, it must be supported by professional informatics. In a microarray field the following steps cannot be performed without computational work: design of probes, quantitative analysis of hybridization results, post-processing, and finally data storage and management. Here, the gen- eral aspects of virtual laboratory systems are presented together with perspectives of their implementation in genomics in order to automate and facilitate this area of research.