omics
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Etymology
Noun
omics (plural omics)
- (biology) Any of several biological subfields that aim to identify or characterize the totality of a certain type of biological entity, e.g. 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, 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.
Derived terms
- dual-omics
- multi-omics
- pan-omics
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Translations
any of several biological subfields that aim to identify or characterize the totality of a certain type of biological entity
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