Jonathan A. Eisen

  • University of California Davis
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  1. Point of View: Hypothesis, analysis and synthesis, it's all Greek to me
    To exemplify the linguistic richness of the Greek language, we explored the use of Greek prepositions to convey additional meaning within genomics

    There are a reasonable number of papers that have covered this topic previously and it really would have been good to reference and discuss them. Examples include:

    • Lederberg J, McCraw AT: 'Ome sweet 'omics– a genealogical treasury of words. Scientist. 2001, 15 (7): 8.
    • McDonald D, Clemente JC, Kuczynski J, Rideout JR, Stombaugh J, Wendel D, Wilke A, Huse S, Hufnagle J, Meyer F, Knight R, Caporaso JG: The Biological Observation Matrix (BIOM) format or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the ome-ome. GigaScience. 2012, 1: 7.
    • Petsko GA: No place like Ome. Genome Biol. 2002, 3 (7): COMMENT1010.
    • Fields S, Johnston M: Genomics. A crisis in postgenomic nomenclature. Science. 2002, 296 (5568): 671-10.1126/science.1070208.
    • Colquhoun D: Too many ‘omics. Scientist. 2005, 19 (3): 8.
    • Yadav SP. The wholeness in suffix -omics, -omes, and the word om. J Biomol Tech. 2007 Dec;18(5):277.

    and more

  2. Point of View: Hypothesis, analysis and synthesis, it's all Greek to me
    However, there are many examples of researchers introducing new variations on the word genomics that are sub-optimal: Jonathan Eisen of the University of California, Davis has coined the term #badomics to describe such words.

    I appreciate the reference to my #badomics term. However, it would have been better to cite, and possibly discuss, my paper on this topic.

    See Eisen JA. 2012. Badomics words and the power and peril of the ome-meme. GigaScience 1:6.

    https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2047-217X-1-6