Omics in biology: review on its classification and ontology Jong Bhak
Genome Research Foundation.
jongbhak@genomics.org
Abstract
The definition, history and current status of omics research are discussed. Omics is a term for generally referring to various biological dsciplines that use a large amount of complex information. It involves bioinformatics as a key analysis component. Omics has become widely used since around late 1990s when bioinformatists and experimental biologists started attaching -omics and -ome suffices to biological terms such as protein, RNA, interaction, function, metabolism and physiology. The main concept of omics compared to conventional biological fields is that it uses relatively advanced algorithms and much computing resources to collect, analyze and datamine biological data. It involves database construction, network analysis, target screening, and designing large scale experiments. At present, there are over 1000 omics fields newly proposed independently by various biological labs around the world. The phenomenon of this extensive usage of omes and omics indicates that biology has become an information science and entering into industrical scale engineering processes with much rigorous and fine detailed categories. It should be noted that it involves a very systematic design, prediction and evaluation processes in biology that has often been a empirical, ill-organized, disconncted and narrow science. A classification and ontology of omics is suggested in this review.
Keywords
Ome, Omics, Bioinformatics, Biomatics
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