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'omics

'omics is the alternative spelling of omics.

Meaning of omics

Noun

omics (plural omics)

  1. 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).
    • 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.2009, William C. S. Cho, Protein Function Prediction for Omics Era, page 223

Questions about 'omics

What is 'omics the alternative spelling of?
'omics is the alternative spelling of omics.

Words near 'omics in the dictionary

  1. 'ologist
  2. 'ologists
  3. 'oly
  4. 'ome
  5. 'omes
  6. 'omics
  7. 'onest
  8. 'onesty
  9. 'oney
  10. 'oneys
  11. 'onna

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 'omics (page history and authors); omics (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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