Morphome is one of the omes in
biology
Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditar ...
to map and classify all the
morphological features of
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...
. Morphome is different from
phenome
A phenome, similar to phenotype, is the set of all traits expressed by a cell, tissue, organ, organism, or species.
Just as the genome and proteome signify all of an organism's genes and proteins, the phenome represents the sum of its phenotyp ...
in that it is the totality of morphological variants while phenome includes non-morphological variants.
See also
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Genome
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding ...
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Proteome
The proteome is the entire set of proteins that is, or can be, expressed by a genome, cell, tissue, or organism at a certain time. It is the set of expressed proteins in a given type of cell or organism, at a given time, under defined conditions. ...
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Interactome In molecular biology, an interactome is the whole set of molecular interactions in a particular cell. The term specifically refers to physical interactions among molecules (such as those among proteins, also known as protein–protein interactions, ...
References
* Automotive morphome analysis of medical-biological images. Pishak, Vasyl P.; Tymochko, K. B.; Antoniuk, O. P. Proc. SPIE Vol. 4607, p. 411-413, Selected Papers from Fifth International Conference on Correlation Optics, ; Ed.
* Strategies for the physiome project. Bassingthwaighte JB. Ann Biomed Eng. 2000 Aug;28(8):1043-58. Review.
Comparative anatomy
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