Medical Dictionary

genomics

noun pl but singular in constr ge·no·mics \jē-ˈnō-miks, jə-\

Medical Definition of GENOMICS

:  a branch of biotechnology concerned with applying the techniques of genetics and molecular biology to the genetic mapping and DNA sequencing of sets of genes or the complete genomes of selected organisms using high-speed methods, with organizing the results in databases, and with applications of the data (as in medicine or biology)—compare proteomics

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