Omic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Omic is an adjective meaning (biology) Of or pertaining to an ome or omics.
Meaning
(biology) Of or pertaining to an ome or omics.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include transomic, multiomic, ethomic, modelomic, transferomic, microbiomic.
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