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- What is metabolomics?
- The metabolome and metabolic reactions
- The importance of metabolomics
- Designing a metabolomics study
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Summary
- Metabolomics is the large-scale study of small molecules (metabolites) within cells, tissues or organisms
- Applications of metabolomics are found within the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and agricultural industries, among others
- There are two main approaches used in metabolomic studies: untargeted (global) and targeted (specific)
- Careful planning and design of experiments is of paramount importance in metabolomic studies
- Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS) are two of the most commonly used analytical methods in metabolomic studies
- EMBL-EBI has three main resources that cover the field of metabolomics: Metabolights, ChEBI and Reactome