Cytomes are the cellular systems, subsystems, and functional components of the
body

Human anatomy

Human anatomy is primarily the scientific study of the morphology of the human body. Anatomy is subdivided into gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy. Gross anatomy is the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by the naked eye...

. The cytome is the collection of the complex and dynamic cellular processes (structure and function) underlying physiological

Physiology

Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

 processes. It describes the structural and functional heterogeneity of the cellular diversity of an organism

Organism

In biology, an organism is any contiguous living system . In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and development, and maintenance of homoeostasis as a stable whole.An organism may either be unicellular or, as in the case of humans, comprise...

. The study of cytomes is called Cytomics

Cytomics

Cytomics is the study of cell systems at a single cell level. It combines all the bioinformatic knowledge to attempt to understand the molecular architecture and functionality of the cell system...

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The Human Cytome Project is about the study of the biological system structure and function of an organism at the cytome level. It relates to Cytomics

Cytomics

Cytomics is the study of cell systems at a single cell level. It combines all the bioinformatic knowledge to attempt to understand the molecular architecture and functionality of the cell system...

, which is the study of cell

Cell (biology)

The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all known living organisms. It is the smallest unit of life that is classified as a living thing, and is often called the building block of life. The Alberts text discusses how the "cellular building blocks" move to shape developing embryos....

 systems (cytomes) at a single cell level. At the Focus on Microscopy (FOM) meeting in Philadelphia, on Wednesday afternoon, 7 April 2004, the idea of a Human Cytome Project was for the first time discussed at a scientific meeting.

See also

• Cytomics
  Cytomics
  Cytomics is the study of cell systems at a single cell level. It combines all the bioinformatic knowledge to attempt to understand the molecular architecture and functionality of the cell system...
  
  
• Cell biology
  Cell biology
  Cell biology is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death. This is done both on a microscopic and molecular level...
  
  
• Human Genome Project
  Human Genome Project
  The Human Genome Project is an international scientific research project with a primary goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA, and of identifying and mapping the approximately 20,000–25,000 genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional...
  
  
• EuroPhysiome
  EuroPhysiome
  The Europhysiome initiative is coordinated by the Coordination action, which aims to establish a better coordination between European Physiome projects. The term is also used to indicate collectively all Europe-based Physiome projects such as the [Renal Physiome Project], the [Giome Project], the...
  
  
• Lipidomics
  Lipidomics
  Lipidomics may be defined as the large-scale study of pathways and networks of cellular lipids in biological systems The word "lipidome" is used to describe the complete lipid profile within a cell, tissue or organism and is a subset of the "metabolome" which also includes the three other major...