Protome vs Proteome - What's the difference?
protome | proteome |
A decorative element, on ancient artefacts, based on the head of an animal or bust of a person
(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.