<h2>‘OME DEPOT</h2> To answer our colleagues at the American Museum of Natural History, we’re not only ready for the genomic revolution, we’re smack in the middle of the next one. I realized this when I clicked on a word new to me in the program of the 2009 Ubiquitin Discovery Conference: “Is it likely that the ubiquitome will replace the kinome as the most promising source of new medicines (5) ⇓ ?” I got it. Neologism or not, “ubiquitome” seemed as straightforward as “kinome,” or for that matter “proteome” or “metabolome,” each of which pops up often nowadays. The corresponding research field of each is called “omics” in keeping with “genomics.” So here we are, deep into the ‘omic revolution; sure enough, there’s the corresponding journal Omics , founded in 1995. The journal dutifully defines its subject: Following the success of the human genome project effort, several other “omic” disciplines have emerged, with the goal of analyzing the components of a living organism in its entirety (6) ⇓ . Folks in the ‘omic community are engaged in mapping out not only the complete set of proteins produced in a cell (proteomics), but also the complete set of altered
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