The wholeness in suffix -omics, -omes, and the word om.

摘要: These days omics is an au courant buzz word in life sciences, and my recent visit on Google.com listed 829 words with omics. The suffix -omics used frequently to describe something big, refers a field of study sciences that focuses large-scale data/information understand summed up “omes” “omics” such as proteomics, genomics, metabolomics, etc. It indeed interesting discern there little history how genomics proteomics came into being, which started the era omics. The was first coined by Dr. Thomas H. Roderick, geneticist at Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, 1986. During international meeting Bethesda feasibility mapping entire human genome, Frank Ruddle (Yale University), Victor McKusick (The Johns Hopkins Tom Roderick (with some other colleagues) convened short sub-meeting. They went McDonald’s Raw (which has now been torn down) discuss starting new journal. After bit beer evening, discussion led name for yet-to-be-published journal, proposed genomics.1 journal known Genomics. The genome believed have different origin. In earlier commentary, Lederberg McCray reported Oxford English Dictionary attributes Hans Winkler.2 book Verbreitung und Ursache Der Parthenogenesis im Pflanzen- Tierreiche, Winkler 1920 Genom context haploid chromosome set. Anyway, origin from Greek stem. As we know, complete genetic makeup organism; hence scholars made inference exists root, ome, origin, referring wholeness or completion, but no root exist literature. Lastly, many science believe -ome derived formed parallel chromosome. Downstream much later Marc Wilkins 1995, organism’s protein complement. time Ph.D. student Keith Williams’s laboratory Macquarie University Sydney, Australia. arose out idea screen determine all proteins produced DNA organism, rather than using more conventional approach sequencing order genes produce proteins.2 alternative phrase “the complement genome.” The twist may be associated “Om” (pronounced “Aum”), ancient Sanskrit intonation, which, like music, transcends barriers age, race, culture, even species. three letters, aa, au, ma, when combined together, make sound “Aum” “Om,” signifies fullness, divinity encompasses universe its unlimitnedness. basic world contain sounds, mantra itself. If repeated correct it can resonate throughout body, so penetrates center one’s atman soul. There harmony, peace, bliss this simple deeply philosophical sound. Finally, omicist—a scientist who studies omeomics, cataloging subfields, interactomics. So keep repeating mantras metabonomics, metallomics, lipidomics, interactomics, transcriptomics, spliceomics, neuromics, physiomics, predictomics, …