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ome en · NOUN

Etymology

From the suffix -ome. Compare ology.

Meanings

1. The totality of a certain type of biological entity in an organism etc., e.g. the genome or proteome.
   • The series is launched with a review from the Snyder group on reading human omes 2013, George M. Church, “Reading and writing omes”, in Molecular Systems Biology, →DOI:
   • The four basic omes, their major interactions, and the evolution of other human omes. 2012, OMICS: Biomedical Perspectives and Applications, →ISBN, page 190:
   • Proposing a new ome has become a way of validating the importance, relevance, and financial promise of a research program. 2016, J. A. Stallins, D. M. Law, S. A. Strosberg, J. J. Rossi, “Geography and postgenomics: how space and place are the new DNA”, in GeoJournal, →DOI, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2022:

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Relateds

omic · -omics · omics