- -ome
The English suffix -ome is commonly attached to biological entities for describing very large-scale data collection and analysis. It is supposed to mean a 'body'. It is used mostly to denote a whole set of something. For example
genome is used to indicate the whole set (whether it is complete now or not) of genes in a cell, tissue, organ, organism, or species (possibly even more).Other uses:
*biome : ecologically similar communities of plants defined by climate and geography
*genome : organism's entire hereditary information encoded in DNA
*metabolome :metabolite s
*transcriptome :Transcription s
*peptidome :peptide s
*proteome :protein s
*interactome : interactions between proteins
*mechanome : biomechanical systems
*textome : text corpus for biological informationSee
-omics for more.References
* [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg17223224.600 New Scientist: just add -ome]
External links
* [http://omics.org Omics.org] : Omics definition and list site.
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