Perkel JM.
Biocompare; 2011 Jun 29.
For all the hype that the genome and (to a lesser extent) proteome receive, when it comes to understanding the biology of disease, development, and differentiation, there's another 'ome to which researchers should pay attention: The metabolome. Metabolomics refers to the study of the complete set of metabolites a given cell, tissue, organ, or organism produces under a given set of conditions, i.e. its metabolome.
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