Definition of "omic" [omic]

• Of or pertaining to related measurements or data from such interrelated fields as genomics, proteomics. transcriptomic or other fields. Many of these fields have a name that ends with the suffix -omics. (adjective)

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• "The use of "omic" technology to study toxicological questions is called toxicogenomics."
• "The development of "omic" technologies has evolved into three scientific disciplines: genomics which is defined as the study of genes and their function; proteomics which is defined as the study of the full set of proteins encoded by a genome; and metabonomics which is defined as the study of the total metabolite pool."
• "Epigenetics has progressed rapidly from an obscure quirk of heredity into a data-heavy 'omic' science."