Advancements in Mass Spectrometry Techniques for Metabolomic and Pharmaceutical Analysis
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmacology and Drug Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 12
Special Issue Editors
Interests: in situ ionization; MS imaging data processing; multimodular imaging; spatial multi-omics; clinical diagnosis; drug research and development; cancer metabolism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mass spectrometry is an indispensable technique in life sciences research, as it can be used to characterize the metabolic profile of complex biomatrices, investigate drug pharmacokinetics, visualize the spatial distribution of metabolites, differentiate stereoisomers, and discover disease-associated biomarkers.
Given the importance of mass spectrometry in advancing biochemical, pharmaceutical, and biomedical sciences, this Special Issue aims to present research and review articles related to topics of mass spectrometry techniques and its applications in metabolomic, pharmaceutical, and biochemical analyses.
We welcome submissions highlighting technical advancements in mass spectrometry, including but not limited to the following topics: sample pretreatment (purification, derivatization, and enrichment); hyphenated techniques (chromatography, spectroscopy, electrochemistry, etc.); in situ sampling and ambient ionization for spatial metabolomics; high-dimensional and multi-modular data processing in multi-omics; and bioinformatics analysis for reliable marker discovery and annotation.
Dr. Xiaowei Song
Dr. Fangling Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ambient ionization
- mass spectrometry imaging
- sample pretreatment
- isomer analysis
- marker discovery
- ion annotation
- structural identification
- artificial intelligence
- multi-omics
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