The term “metabolome” was first used in 1998 and was likely coined to match with existing biological terms referring to the complete set of genes (the genome), the complete set of proteins (the proteome) and the complete set of transcripts (the transcriptome).
术语“代谢物组”（英语：Metabolome）首先在1998年被使用，并且可能是与现有的生物术语相匹配的，指的是完整的基因集合（基因组），完整的蛋白质集合（蛋白质组）和完整的转录物集合（转录物组）。