#badomics words

I am a bit obsessed with the use of "omics" in science and in particular the adding of this suffix onto everything and anything.  Here are some writings / stories on the topic.

Tagged posts:

• badomics
• Worst New Omics Word Award
• Overselling genomics award

Gigascience Article

• Badomics words and the power and peril of the ome-meme by me.

Press coverage:

• Robert Lee Hotz in the Wall Street Journal: Here's an Omical Tale: Scientists Discover Spreading Suffix Researchers Develop Lots of New Words That All End Alike; 'Sounds Futuristic'
• Richard Grant in the Guardian: Say "Ome": scientists get silly The proliferation of various "–omes" betrays a deep-seated love of the irreverent.
• Monya Baker in Nature: Big biology: The ’omes puzzle

Badomics words posts:

• #Badomics word of the year already? Yup. The 'Consciousome' from Deepak Chopra
• Badomics word of the year? Nutrimetabonomics
• #Badomics word of the day, week and month: the morphome
• A badomics word for good purposes: new paper on the "ridiculome"
• Referring to 16S surveys as "metagenomics" is misleading and annoying #badomics #OmicMimicry
• #Badomics word of the day & Worst New Omics Word Award: CircadiOmics
• Trying to track down source of cartoon about coining "ome" words #badomics
• Not a #badomics word but - "Evolutionary Systems Biology" is - well - pretty complex
• My new paper in #Gigascience: #Badomics words and the power and peril of the ome-meme
• What to do - what to do - cool microbial art w/ a #badomics word --- must resist purchasing -- must resist ...
• #badomics word for the week: nascentome
• Worst new omicsword, perhaps ever, the Dispensome #awful #badomics #reallybad #uggh
• Why #badomics words can also be very good: a case in study with museomics #JGIUM
• #Badomics word of the day (or even month): Culturomics
• Good omics word of the day: transcriptomics
• Good words on bad omics words: "A crisis in postgenomic nomenclature" from 2002
• End (at least for while) of the bad omics word awards
• Bad omics word of the day: connectome
• Cool paper, & winner of "worst new omics word award": Predatosome
• Worst new omics word award: Negatome
• Wanted - Bad New Omics Words
• Worst new omics word award: material degradomics
• Worst new omics word award #5: fermentome
• Worst new omics word award: Omnigenomics by (surprisingly) @Genomicron
• Worst new omics word award: diseasome (thx @steinsky @noahwilliamgray @mocost )
• Worst new omics word award: ethomics
• Worst New Omics Word Award: Museomics

Other things to read on this topic

• The Biological Observation Matrix (BIOM) format or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the ome-ome by McDonald et al
• Chitty M:Omes and -omics glossary & taxonomy. Evolving terminology for emerging technologies. http://www.genomicglossaries.com/content/omes.asp
• Petsko GA: No place like Ome. Genome Biol 2002, 3(7):COMMENT1010. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text |PubMed Central Full Text
• Fields S, Johnston M: Genomics. A crisis in postgenomic nomenclature. Science 2002, 296(5568):671. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text
• Young SN: A rant against jargon and neologisms. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2006, 31(3):155-156. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text |PubMed Central Full Text
• Lederberg J, McCraw AT: 'Ome sweet 'omics– a genealogical treasury of words. Scientist 2001, 15(7):8.
• Austin on Ome Sweet Ome
• The Wholeness in Suffix -omics, -omes, and the Word Om