Advances in Metabolomics in Health and Disease
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 2719
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Dear Colleagues,
Metabolomics represents an emerging area of research, as a comprehensive technology that focuses on small molecules involved in different metabolic pathways of living organisms, from microorganisms, to plants, animals and humans. It reflects an organism’s phenotype through a global comprehensive analysis of metabolite profiles (untargeted metabolic state of a biological system, e.g., tissue, blood, urine, saliva, cell cultures) or quantification of specific metabolites, as part of the metabolome (targeted approach). It addresses the interconnections with genomics, proteomics and epigenetics, including microbiome and environmental factors. It may include experimental in vitro or in vivo studies in plant or animal models, as well as preclinical and clinical research in human diseases. Metabolomics takes advantage of high-throughput techniques (mass spectrometry or nuclear magnetic resonance coupled or not with high-performance liquid or gas chromatography) for the screening of numerous molecules. The large-scale data generated are complemented by machine learning bioinformatics, in order to recognize patterns and build models that are utilized for the classification, regression, or clustering the complex metabolomic data. These may unravel the specific physiological and pathological mechanisms related to the systems biology approach and personalized medicine. It offers possibilities to find biomarkers of diagnosis, which are critical for precision health approaches and improved diagnostics, with an impact on clinical decisions.
This Special Issue “Advances in Metabolomics in Health and Disease” encourages the submission of original metabolomics-based studies, narrative or systematic reviews. This Special Issue may offer the opportunity for authors to demonstrate the impact of metabolomics on the diagnosis and prognosis of different diseases using either human samples or animal models, but also to integrate metabolomics into routine healthcare to enable preventive and personalized approaches.
Prof. Dr. Carmen Socaciu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metabolomics
- disease biomarkers
- metabolic phenotyping
- metabolic pathways
- mass spectrometry
- NMR spectroscopy
- metabolic databases
- bioinformatics
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