Other fields seek to enhance knowledge about the bacterium itself. Structural genomics, for example, aims to uncover the three-dimensional structure of every protein in Mtb.

• 其他领域寻求强化关于这种细菌本身的知识。例如，结构基因组学著眼于发现结核分枝杆菌的每一个蛋白的三维结构。