后缀：-ics [名词后缀]

表示“...。学”、“...术”

informatics 信息学

electronics 电子学

mechanics 机械学

politics 政治学

nucleonics 核子学

hygienics 卫生学

oceanics 海洋学

atomics 原子工艺学

drmatics 演剧技术

acrobatics 杂技

magnetics 磁学

astronautics 太空学

pedagogics 教育学

词根词缀：-omics, -ome, -omes

【来源及含义】Greek: said to be a stem for "all, every, whole", or "complete"; that is, a field of study in biology that refers to the whole set of omics including their -omics and -ome subfields in order to understand life as a holistic existence and organic beings as a whole

【相关描述】Bioinformatists and molecular biologists are thought to be among the first scientists to start to apply the -ome suffix in several scientific areas.

Bioinformatics is an information science that analyzes life processes using computational tools for solving biological problems and to give direction or an overview in biology.

Ome and omics are convenient ways to describe a holistic way of looking at complex systems. In the mid 1990's bioinformatists started realizing the convenience of -omics and used terms for many fields; such as, metabolome, textome, interactome, bacteriome, eukaryome, functome, patentome, neurome and so on.

Omics was coined by scientists to present the realization of the importance of information processing in biology that was proposed by many biologists and as such, it was made possible by the development of personal computers and personal computer operating systems; such as, Windows, Linux, and Apple.

【同源单词】bibliome, bibliomics, biomics, connectome, connectomics, cytome