The Lipidome
I would like to give a shout out to Colby Vorland over at Nutritional Blogma for posting about this here:
The Complex Lipidome Quantified
Lipidome = a play on words presumably derived from genome to describe the spectrum of lipids in human circulation.
Please do go visit Colby and share with him your comments. I will, however, share two direct links with you here:
The full text article: Lipidomics reveals a remarkable diversity of lipids in human plasma
The research consortium that generated the article: Lipid MAPS
No doubt I'll be spending some time at the Lipidomics Gateway in the near future!
The Complex Lipidome Quantified
Lipidome = a play on words presumably derived from genome to describe the spectrum of lipids in human circulation.
Please do go visit Colby and share with him your comments. I will, however, share two direct links with you here:
The full text article: Lipidomics reveals a remarkable diversity of lipids in human plasma
The research consortium that generated the article: Lipid MAPS
No doubt I'll be spending some time at the Lipidomics Gateway in the near future!
Comments
FYI "omics" is added to words to signify a consideration as a whole- e.g. studying all lipid species; from wiki: in cellular and molecular biology, forming nouns with the sense "all constituents considered collectively".
I've seen a lot of biologists e-groan about the number of words that it is tacked onto ("antiomes" heh). See a large list here: http://omics.org/index.php/Alphabetically_ordered_list_of_omes_and_omics
Here is an interesting paper on how these suffixes came to be: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2392988/
I'm staking a claim on "dietome" :)
-Colby
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