Definitions

The original definition of genomics:
"A marriage of molecular and cell biology with classical genetics, fostered by computational science."

But here are a few other more helpful definitions:

 - Big (large scale) molecular biology.
- "...a set of .. technologies ... to decode the DNA sequence, or blueprint, of any organism" (Kamer, 2000).
- "...a new science that studies whole genomes by integrating the traditional disciplines of cytology, Mendelian genetics, quantitative genetics, population genetics, and molecular genetics with new technology from informatics and automated robotic systems. The purpose of genomic research is to learn about the structure, function and evolution of all genomes, past and present" (Liu, 1998).