User:Caston/BlogEntry: 2010 October 08 08:12:55 UTC

Metabolomics
I have added a new section under molecular biology called metabolomics

According to wikipedia:

"Metabolomics is the "systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind" - specifically, the study of their small-molecule metabolite profiles.[1] The metabolome represents the collection of all metabolites in a biological cell, tissue, organ or organism, which are the end products of cellular processes[2]. Thus, while mRNA gene expression data and proteomic analyses do not tell the whole story of what might be happening in a cell, metabolic profiling can give an instantaneous snapshot of the physiology of that cell"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolomics