Editing Genomics (section)

=== Etymology ===
From the Greek ΓΕΝ<ref name = "Liddell_2013" /> ''gen'', "gene" (gamma, epsilon, nu, epsilon) meaning "become, create, creation, birth", and subsequent variants: genealogy, genesis, genetics, genic, genomere, genotype, genus etc. While the word ''genome'' (from the [[German language|German]] ''Genom'', attributed to [[Hans Winkler]]) was in use in [[English language|English]] as early as 1926,<ref name = "OED_Genome"/> the term ''genomics'' was coined by Tom Roderick, a [[geneticist]] at the [[Jackson Laboratory]] ([[Bar Harbor, Maine]]), over beers with [[James E. Womack]], Tom Shows and [[Stephen J. O'Brien|Stephen O’Brien]] at a meeting held in [[Maryland]] on the mapping of the human genome in 1986.<ref name = "Yadav_2007"/> First as the name for a [[Genomics (journal)|new journal]] and then as a whole new science discipline.<ref name = "O'Brien_2022" />