An environment'splasmidome refers to theplasmids present in it.[1]The term is a portmanteau of the two English words Plasmid and Kingdom.In biological research, plasmidome may refer to the actual plasmids that were found and isolated from a certainmicroorganism by means of culturing isolated microorganism and investigating the plasmids it possesses or by taking an environmental sample and performing ametagenomic survey usingnext generation sequencing methods in order to reveal and characterize plasmidgenomes that belong to that environment.[2]