Omic, Omics

What is Omic, Omics?


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Slang coming from world of medicine and drugs, referring to a collection of new fangled technology and ways to do old fangled things.

proteomics (separate, identify, and measure proteins); genomics (analyze genes); metabonomics (study metabolism). Spread is inevitable: environomics, garbagomics, travelomics. Variants: -omic, -omics


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