Proteome vs Metabalome - What's the difference?
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(biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of proteins encoded by a particular genome.
*2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 367:
*:So now the quest is to crack the human proteome – a concept so novel that the term proteome didn't even exist a decade ago.
(biology) complete set of small-molecule metabolites (such as metabolic intermediates, hormones and other signalling molecules, and secondary metabolites) to be found within a biological sample, such as a single organism.
