omic

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See also: -omic and 'omic

English

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Etymology

From ome +‎ -ic or a back-formation from omics.

Adjective

omic (not comparable)

  1. (biology) Of or pertaining to an ome or omics.
    • 2000 January, Glen A. Evans, “Designer science and the “omic” revolution”, in Nature Biotechnology, volume 18, →DOI, page 127:
      Following the success of the human genome project effort, several other “omic” disciplines have emerged, with the goal of analyzing the components of a living organism in its entirety.
    • 2003 October, Hui Ge, Albertha J.M. Walhout, Marc Vidal, “Integrating ‘omic’ information: a bridge between genomics and systems biology”, in Trends in Genetics, volume 19, number 10, →DOI, →ISSN, page 551:
      Functional genomic and proteomic (‘omic’) approaches can be helpful to accelerate the identification of the genes and gene products involved in particular modules, and to describe the functional relationships between them.

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