Editing Genomics (section)

=== The "omics" revolution ===
[[Image:Metabolomics schema.png|thumb|General schema showing the relationships of the [[genome]], [[transcriptome]], [[proteome]], and [[metabolome]] ([[lipidome]])]]
{{Main|Omics|Human proteome project}}

The English-language [[neologism]] '''omics''' informally refers to a field of study in biology ending in ''-omics'', such as genomics, [[proteomics]] or [[metabolomics]]. The related suffix '''-ome''' is used to address the objects of study of such fields, such as the [[genome]], [[proteome]], or [[metabolome]] ([[lipidome]]) respectively. The suffix ''-ome'' as used in molecular biology refers to a ''totality'' of some sort; similarly '''omics''' has come to refer generally to the study of large, comprehensive biological data sets. While the growth in the use of the term has led some scientists ([[Jonathan Eisen]], among others<ref name = "Eisen_2012"/>) to claim that it has been oversold,<ref name = "wsj_2012"/> it reflects the change in orientation towards the quantitative analysis of complete or near-complete assortment of all the constituents of a system.<ref name = "Scudellari_2011" /> In the study of [[Symbiosis|symbioses]], for example, researchers which were once limited to the study of a single gene product can now simultaneously compare the total complement of several types of biological molecules.<ref name = "Chaston_2012"/><ref name = "McCutcheon_2011"/>