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A bioinformatician's view of the metabolome.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 May 2006
Nobeli Irene, Thornton Janet M
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The study of a collection of metabolites as a whole (metabolome), as opposed to isolated small molecules, is a fast-growing field promising to take us one step further towards understanding cell biology, and relating the genetic capabilities of an organism to its observed phenotype. The new sciences of metabolomics and metabonomics can exploit a variety of existing experimental and computational methods, but they...
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