cellome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From cell +‎ -ome.

Noun[edit]

cellome (plural cellomes)

  1. The totality of molecules and their interactions within a cell.
    • 2005, Ravi Kapur, “Whole Cell Microarrays”, in U. R. Müller, D. V. Nicolau, editors, Microarray Technology and Its Applications (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering), Berlin: Springer, →ISBN, page 335:
      Industrialization of cell biology will follow the path of industrialization of molecular biology; development of tools and techniques to gather and manage data with high throughput. The market drivers of gene sequencing, faster and cheaper, will also be drivers for extraction of the knowledge of the cellome.