Len Pattenden asked:
> to show you how much I don't
>follow it, what's a Metabolome?
>Sorry, I should have answered before, but I forgot until I was looking
through the posts today before responding to Mr Valev.
The metabolome is the totality of all metabolite concentrations in the
cell, as in
"genome" = all the genes
"transcriptome" = all the transcripts
"proteome" = all the proteins
Interest in the various 'omes has grown with the rather belated recognition
that the genome isn't all there is.
>>Another reason, perhaps people are happy with their level of knowledge and
>their skills/techniques in the area. This seems the case for bionet
>specialist groups like molecular biology (HIV), which is a ghost town.
>Any clues why this should be? The HIV news group seemed to die more or less
from one day to the next. I noticed because it happened at just the time
when Peter Duesberg was making a visit here and I was following it a bit at
that time.
athel
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