-omics

Alternative forms

• -nomics
• -onomics

Origin

-oma + -ics, both ultimately from Ancient Greek

Full definition of -omics

Suffix

1. (biology) used to form nouns meaning a study of the totality of something; e.g. genomics, proteomics

Related terms

• -ome
• omic

Derived terms

• genomics
• lipidomics
• metabalomics
• petroleomics
• proteomics
• transcriptomics