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August 14, 2012 02:29 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/PfXVRl2bXi8/rise-of-the-omics.html
Rise of the omics
Wall Street Journal science reporter Robert Lee Hotz posted a funny-cause-it's-true essay about the curious rise in the suffix "-ome" or "-omics," as in foldome, physiome, biome, and sociomics, pharmacogenomics, datanomics, and on and on. In fact, there's even a scientific journal named Omics, and you can track other bio-related omes over at Omics.org. "It [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/PfXVRl2bXi8/rise-of-the-omics.html
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