The Shared Antibiotic Resistome of Soil Bacteria and Human Pathogens(sciencemag.org)
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The Shared Antibiotic Resistome of Soil Bacteria and Human Pathogens
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6098/1107.abstract
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-ome is a name given to a total set of members of a complex biological system. So we have genome (all of the genes in a cell/species), transcriptome (all of the mRNA in a cell/organism/species), proteome (all of the proteins in a cell/species), metabolome (all of the small metabolites in a cell/species), etc.
Accordingly, resistome would be set of all the genes providing antibiotic resistance to bacteria.
Accordingly, resistome would be set of all the genes providing antibiotic resistance to bacteria.
I'm just so glad they added the "-ome" in the title. Because I would not of understood the title if they had just wrote "The Shared Antibiotic Resistance of Soil Bacteria and Human Pathogens". But seriously, this is some pretty awesome work. It is an elegant demonstration of horizontal gene transfer, something which is widely known to be theoretically possible but rarely directly observed in the wild.
So this scientific article belongs in the scientific article-ome?
"Logome", perhaps?
I just found the full PDF, hosted by one of the article's authors: http://dantaslab.wustl.edu/Dantas_Pubs/2012_Forsberg_Soil_Sc...
I just wish they had come up with a better title. Resistome? What the hell does an -ome really mean anyway.