Alternative spelling of omics

(chiefly biology) Forms nouns meaning “a study of the totality of something”.

(biology) Any of several biochemical or genetic subfields that aim to identify the totality of a certain type of biological molecule, such as genomics for genes or proteomics for proteins.

(biology, medicine) 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.