Definition of metabolome in English:
metabolome
noun mɪˈtabələʊmməˈtabəˌlōm
Biochemistry The total number of metabolites present within an organism, cell, or tissue.
water composition had a significant effect on the fish liver metabolome
Example sentencesExamples
- I've spent the past three days at the conference, among folks who are wrestling not only with the genome, but also with the proteome, the transcriptome, the reactome, and the metabolome.
- Therefore, the metabolite composition of a cell or organism, the metabolome, is linked to the transcriptome and to the physiological state of the plant.
- Amino acid analysis and metabolome studies of the mutants are now in progress.
- Interestingly, similar trends as those shown in Fig.1 were also observed in the metabolome.
- As another approach to integrate transcriptome and metabolome, data are mapped on known metabolic pathways.
Origin
1990s: blend of metabolism and genome.