From owner-btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mon Jun 25 12:52:06 2001 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F4217A75 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:52:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BC917A92 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:52:03 +0100 (BST) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70CD317A75 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:52:00 +0100 (BST) Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id MAA21072 for btk-mca-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:42:32 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: athel@ir2cbm.cnrs-mrs.fr (Athel Cornish-Bowden) X-Newsgroups: bionet.metabolic-reg Subject: Re: Low activity in 'bionet.metabolic-reg' Date: 25 Jun 2001 12:42:31 +0100 Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Lines: 39 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Complaints-To: news@net.bio.net X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1902817A56 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:42:29 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from ir2cbm.cnrs-mrs.fr (ir2cbm.cnrs-mrs.fr [193.50.234.128]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 4800717AB8 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:42:17 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from [10.234.32.112] by ir2cbm.cnrs-mrs.fr via ESMTP (950221.405.SGI.8.6.10/920502.SGI) for id NAA02968; Mon, 26 Jun 2001 13:39:57 +0200 X-Sender: cornish@ibsm.cnrs-mrs.fr X-To: btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk To: btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sender: owner-btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Len Pattenden asked: > to show you how much I don't >follow it, what's a Metabolome? > Sorry, I should have answered before, but I forgot until I was looking through the posts today before responding to Mr Valev. The metabolome is the totality of all metabolite concentrations in the cell, as in "genome" = all the genes "transcriptome" = all the transcripts "proteome" = all the proteins Interest in the various 'omes has grown with the rather belated recognition that the genome isn't all there is. > >Another reason, perhaps people are happy with their level of knowledge and >their skills/techniques in the area. This seems the case for bionet >specialist groups like molecular biology (HIV), which is a ghost town. > Any clues why this should be? The HIV news group seemed to die more or less from one day to the next. I noticed because it happened at just the time when Peter Duesberg was making a visit here and I was following it a bit at that time. athel -- Athel Cornish-Bowden athel@ibsm.cnrs-mrs.fr http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip10/homepage.htm (changed 23 May 2001) Phone: + 33 491 16 41 38; fax: + 33 491 16 45 78 CNRS-BIP, B.P. 71, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France --- .