noun The complete set of a particular kind of biological molecule or feature in an organism, as in "genome" or "proteome."
- Proposing a new ome has become a way of validating the importance, relevance, and financial promise of a research program.
— J. A. Stallins, Geography and postgenomics: how space and place are the new DNA (2016)
- The series is launched with a review from the Snyder group on reading human omes
— George M. Church, Reading and writing omes (2013)
- Researchers compared the microbiome and the metabolome of the two patient groups.
- The four basic omes, their major interactions, and the evolution of other human omes.
— OMICS: Biomedical Perspectives and Applications (2012)
