Talk:Metagenomics

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I think the subject also need some comments the study of organisms acting as a community. An example being the flow of a metabolite through the different metabolisms. Any thoughts? Or Perhaps that comes under systems biology instead?

It does include an aspect of studying an entire community at a genetic level.

I'd say yes and no to this. Following a metabolite through different metabolisms would fall under something like systems biology and might not require any genomic information at all so metagenomics might not be the right label. Such studies are also not the sole concern of metagenomics. Diversity and evolution are also concerns in the field.

On the other hand, such a study is one of the really useful things that metagenomics can do and do well and probably what a lot of people in the field are doing, so it definitely deserves a prominent mention if not is own section. It's just not what I'm doing in metagenomics, so I didn't think to put it in.

Also, just because I started the page page, doesn't mean you can't add what you'd like to it. If you have some knowledge or interest in this area, please contribute. Jmeppley 21:05, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)