Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man; a comprehensive database of human genes and genetic disorders.
Acronym honoring Gregor Mendel's foundational work in genetics, combined with 'Online' for the digital database format. Created in the 1960s, moved online in the 1990s as genomic research accelerated.
OMIM beautifully bridges the 19th-century monk Mendel's pea plant experiments with 21st-century genomic medicine, showing how scientific knowledge builds across centuries through accumulated human curiosity.
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