Chapte‘ 15 P‘o’pect’ of ŕOmic’ Ba’ed Molecula‘ App‘oache’ in Colo‘ectal Cance‘ Diagno’i’ and T‘eatment in the Developing Wo‘ld: A Ca’e Study in Cape Town, South Af‘ica Henry Adeola, Ryan William Goosen, Paul Goldberg and Jonathan Blackburn Additional information is available at the end of the chapter http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/57485 ŗ. Introduction The emergence of the field of genomics, proteomics and more recently lipidomics in science has advanced diagnostic and therapeutic medicine in no small measure. These fields typically deal with the documentation of the identity, abundance and localization of DN“, RN“, protein and lipid biomolecules in a given cell, tissue or organism. “n in-depth knowledge of the biologic and physiologic localization, chemistry, and methodology for isolation of these essential biomolecules is key to a successful analysis and interpretation of information retrieved in the ȁomics field. The recent rapid development of these fields can be accounted for by the concurrent develop‐ ment of new state of the art, high throughput technologies such as real time qualitative polymerase chain reaction ǻRTqPCRǼ, microarrays, flow cytometry, mass spectrometry and sequencing. These high throughput technologies have found extensive utility in diverse areas of human biology, particularly following the completion of the human genome project ǻHGPǼ in ŘŖŖř. This project, which successfully documented the full complement of genes present physiologically within the human cell, gave a scientific platform to newer experimental initiatives thereafter. Clinical application of ȁOmics based approaches have gained popularity and are believed to be the future of medicine because of its inherent ability to determine disease-associated changes in the human genome, transcriptome, proteome, lipidome and metabolome. Docu‐ © 2014 The Author(s). Licensee InTech. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.