Omics

Omics ( Greek ομική, female, English - omics ) makes as a suffix branches of modern biology indicated that deal with the analysis of sets of similar individual elements.

Proteomics for example, deals with the proteome (English: proteome ), the totality of all proteins present at a defined time in a cell, a cell group, an organ or an organism. Similarly, the set of genes of an organism is referred to as a genome, the field for its research according to genomics.

The Functional Genomics aims to elucidate the possible function of all genes in an organism and combines especially genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and large-scale mutant analysis. The evaluation of all individual results requires bioinformatics methods.

The goal of Systems Biology is an integrated picture of the regulatory processes at all levels, from the genome to the proteome to the organelles up to the behavior and biomechanics of the entire organism to get.

Some of the most common terms are listed in the table. However, there are now a number of other concept creations, which have, however, scarcely entered into the German vocabulary: for example, interactome - Interactomics, Physiome Physiomics.

Even the pair of terms Toponome - Toponomics is sometimes counted among the - omics. This is incorrect, since the syllable " nom " from the Greek noun nomos is formed.