omics
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20 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Current usage
- Kinds of omics studies
- Genomics
- Epigenomics
- Microbiomics
- Lipidomics
- Proteomics
- Glycomics
- Foodomics
- Transcriptomics
- Metabolomics
- Nutrition, pharmacology, and toxicology
- Culture
- Miscellaneous
- Unrelated words in ''-omics''
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
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Omics is the collective characterization and quantification of entire sets of biological molecules and the investigation of how they translate into the structure, function, and dynamics of an organism or group of organisms. The branches of science known informally as omics are various disciplines in biology whose names end in the suffix -omics, such as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, phenomics and transcriptomics.