proteomics
nounUS /ˌpɹoʊtiˈɑmɪks/
Etymology From protein + -omics.
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Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The branch of molecular biology that studies the set of proteins expressed by the genome of an organism.
- The derived word "proteomics", which has come into use almost as an afterthought, may be equally useful since it indicates something less well-defined but more ambitious. Proteomics is a field, just as genomics is, rather than a closed and conceptually static body of knowledge (as are the genome and proteome, by definition).1998, N. Leigh Anderson, “Proteome and proteomics: New technologies, new concepts, and new words”, in Electrophoresis, volume 19, page 1853:
- Synonyms
- proteonomics
- Derived terms
- chemical proteomics, chemoproteomics, glycoproteomics, immunoproteomics, lipoproteomics, metalloproteomics, metaproteomics, microproteomics, morphoproteomics, nanoproteomics, neuroproteomics, oncoproteomics, palaeoproteomics, paleoproteomics, pharmacoproteomics, phosphoproteomics, phyloproteomics, riboproteomics, shotgun proteomics, sialoproteomics, teratoproteomics, toxicoproteomics
- Related terms
- proteome, proteomicist