Using omics in chronic pain conditions to delineate mechanisms

The concept of omics refers to the large-scale structural and functional investigation of multiple measured biological variables and has become firmly rooted in contemporary biomedical studies. This reflects both the advances in the development of high-throughput techniques for simultaneous analysis of biological processes and entities and a trend toward employing a more holistic view on the control and regulation of biological systems and its implication for medicine. A web-based omics encyclopedia lists hundreds of ‘omes’ and ‘omics’ including customary ones, such as genomics or transcriptomics, and quite extravagant ones such as killifishomics or opiniomics. Attempts are being made to integrate...