Over the past decade, a linguistic trickle swelled into a flood of buzzwords tagged with the curiously resonant suffix "ome." Today, hundreds of "omic" terms have worked their way into the lexicon, coined mostly by scientists intent on creating new sub-specialties. Robert C. Green, HMS lecturer on medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Alexa McCray, associate director of the Countway Library of Medicine; and Isaac Kohane, director of the Countway Library of Medicine at HMS, are quoted.
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