These days, the proliferation of new words springing from the world of “omics” is almost as high-throughput as genome-scale sequencing. Genome Technology’s staff spent some time compiling a list — er, excuse us, that’s a “listome” — of the ’omes out there. We would love to say it’s comprehensive, but by the time this is published, no doubt each of the ’omes here will have spawned more generations to contribute to the epidemic.
biome
cardiome
cellome
chromonome
complexome
cytome
degradome
enzymome
epigenome
expressome
fluxome
foldome
functome
genome
glycome
immunome
integrome
interactome
kinome
ligandome
lipidome
lipoproteome
liposome
localizome
metabolome
metabonome
methylome
microbiome
morphome
neurogenome
nucleome
operome
ORFeome
parasitome
pathome
peptidome
phenome
phylogenome
physiome
predictome
promoterome
proteasome
proteome
pseudogenome
regulome
resistome
ribonome
secretome
separome
signalome
somatonome
systeome
transcriptome
transgenome
translatome
transportome
unknome
vaccinome