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- noun Any of several
biochemical orgenetic studies that aim to identify thetotality of a certain type of compound, gene etc in a specificorganism
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Examples
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The good news is that this has been the year of discoveries about "omics"--epigenomics, exposomics, nutrigenomics and microbiomics and toxigenomics--that do, in fact, hold the key to unlocking our health and disease mysteries.
Mark Hyman, MD: Why Your Genes Don't Determine Your Health MD Mark Hyman 2011
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No one is denying that that its application to biology using large-scale "omics" - type technologies is relatively new, but that is completely different from denying that it has been able to make any applications at all, which is what you claimed.
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"omics"--epigenomics, exposomics, nutrigenomics and microbiomics and toxigenomics--that do, in fact, hold the key to unlocking our health and disease mysteries.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com MD Mark Hyman 2011
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'omics'-methods for the analysis of microbial communities in conjunction with the environment are of great interest.
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The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these "omics" that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans.
Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human Gregory Stock 2003
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The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these "omics" that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans.
Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human Gregory Stock 2003
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The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these "omics" that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans.
Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human Gregory Stock 2003
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The 'omics' revolution of the last decade has ensured that the field of biomarker research will test the frontiers of biomedical research in the coming years.
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Other 'omics' such as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and nutrigenomics would also gain increasing attention, according to the 40 academic, NGOs and business representatives that attended Lonza's
NutraIngredients RSS 2010
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• Apply mathematical models such as machine learning, statistical, sampling or other methods to extract biological information from complex integrated "omics" datasets, including NextGen data derived from longitudinal investigations, array based genomic variation, tiling and expression data, and phenotypic data.
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