omics

See also: -omics

English

Alternative forms

• 'omics
• -omics

Etymology

From -omics. Compare ology.

Noun

omics (plural omics)

1. (biology) Any of several biochemical or genetic subfields that aim to identify the totality of a certain type of biological molecule, such as genomics for genes or proteomics for proteins.
   • 2009, William C. S. Cho, Protein Function Prediction for Omics Era, page 223:

     Many computational algorithms have been developed to predict gene functions from omics data. As the omics era starts with completely sequenced genomes, early efforts on algorithm development focused on exploring genomics data for gene function prediction.

   • 2021, Vinny Negi et al., “Computational repurposing of therapeutic small molecules from cancer to pumonary hypertension”, in Science Advances‎^[1], volume 7, number 43:

     However, because of the large amount of data required for calculating differential dependencies across gene networks, such analytics are often not feasible across the limited -omics datasets of rare or emerging diseases.

Related terms

• omic
• ome
• -ome

Anagrams

• micos, osmic