English

Noun

omics ‎(plural omics)

1. Any of several biochemical or genetic studies that aim to identify the totality of a certain type of compound, gene etc in a specific organism

   2009 William C. S. Cho, "Protein Function Prediction for Omics Era" - Page 223

   Many computational algorithms have been developed to predict gene functions from omics data. As the omics era starts with completely sequenced genomes, early efforts on algorithm development focused on exploring genomics data for gene function prediction.