Dear Colleagues,

Metabolism is the chemical process that occurs in cells and living organisms to produce substances and energy needed to sustain life. Metabolomics focuses primarily on small molecular metabolites. The metabolome is considered to be more phenotypic than the genome because metabolites are variable depending on disease and environment. However, we do not know what and how many metabolites are present in the cell. Metabolomics deals with compounds that are widely different in their physicochemical properties. Advances in mass spectrometry have made it possible to measure a large number of metabolites. Even so, it is not possible to obtain the whole picture in a single analysis. There are many challenges in mass spectrometry, such as the certainty of metabolite identification and precise control of quantitative data. However, mass spectrometry has revealed many biological phenomena through metabolomics. In this Special Issue, we will discuss the latest information on metabolomics via mass spectrometry.

Prof. Dr. Yoshiya Oda
Guest Editor

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• mass spectrometry
• sample preparation
• chromatography
• identification
• quantitation
• comprehensiveness
• high- throughput
• pathway
• biological function
• disease