The ionome is defined as the mineral nutrient and trace element composition of an organism and represents the inorganic component of cellular and organismal systems. Ionomics, the study of the ionome, involves the quantitative and simultaneous measurement of the elemental composition of living organisms and changes in this composition in response to physiological stimuli, developmental state, and genetic modifications. Ionomics requires the application of high-throughput elemental analysis technologies and their integration with both bioinformatic and genetic tools. Ionomics has the ability to capture information about the functional state of an organism under different conditions, driven by genetic and developmental differences and by biotic and abiotic factors. The relatively high throughput and low cost of ionomic analysis means that it has the potential to provide a powerful approach to not only the functional analysis of the genes and gene networks that directly control the ionome, but also to the more extended gene networks that control developmental and physiological processes that affect the ionome indirectly. In this review we describe the analytical and bioinformatics aspects of ionomics, as well as its application as a functional genomics tool.

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离子组学与植物离子组的研究

离子体被定义为生物体的矿物质营养素和微量元素组成，代表细胞和生物体系统的无机成分。离子组学是对离子体的研究，涉及对活生物体的元素组成以及该组成在响应生理刺激、发育状态和遗传修饰时发生的变化进行定量和同步测量。离子组学需要应用高通量元素分析技术并将它们与生物信息学和遗传工具结合起来。离子组学能够在不同条件下捕获有关生物体功能状态的信息，这是由遗传和发育差异以及生物和非生物因素驱动的。离子组分析的相对高通量和低成本意味着它有可能提供一种强大的方法，不仅可以对直接控制离子组的基因和基因网络进行功能分析，还可以对控制发育的更扩展的基因网络进行分析。和间接影响离子组的生理过程。在这篇综述中，我们描述了离子组学的分析和生物信息学方面，以及它作为功能基因组学工具的应用。