Omics studies (metagenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics) for marine oil biodegradation research increased rapidly after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) accident in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, it has been demonstrated how omics techniques can be used to model and better understand pre-spill environments, monitoring during a spill and post-spill. Data that encompass everything from the ecosystem to the molecular level are needed for understanding the complicated process of petroleum biodegradation in marine environments. Consequently, using omics for monitoring oil in the ocean will help in developing more robust systems models and would make responses to spills much more defensible in terms of risks to the environment and people. Omics is enabling for a Systems Biology approach to oil spills which allows a search for hidden interactions and attributes at different trophic levels because ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’.

2010 年墨西哥湾深水地平线 (DWH) 事故后，用于海洋石油生物降解研究的组学研究（宏基因组学、转录组学、代谢组学、蛋白质组学）迅速增加。从那时起，已经证明了如何使用组学技术来模拟和更好地理解泄漏前环境、泄漏期间和泄漏后的监测。要了解海洋环境中石油生物降解的复杂过程，需要涵盖从生态系统到分子水平的所有数据。因此，使用组学来监测海洋中的石油将有助于开发更强大的系统模型，并在对环境和人类的风险方面使对泄漏的反应更具防御性。