Scottish Metabolomics Network Annual Meeting—New Innovations in Metabolomics

Dear Colleagues,

Since its inaugural meeting in 2015, the Scottish Metabolomics Network Symposium has grown to become one of the largest metabolomics meetings in the UK, with average attendances of >100 attracting delegates from universities, research institutes, and industry.

The meeting showcases the breadth of metabolomics in Scotland. This year’s event will take place over three days, with a one-day workshop on data modelling and plenary lecture from Dr Tim Ebbels kicking the meeting off. Throughout the subsequent two days of talks, posting, and discussions, a diverse range of small molecule bioanalysis will be covered ranging from biomarker and cell-based metabolomics through to plant and nutrition, microbial, technological, and computational approaches, concluding with a plenary from Prof Roy Goodacre on aspects of large-scale phenotyping experiments.

Such experimental variety is testament to the dedication, development, progression, and adoption of metabolomics technologies in Scotland and bodes very well for the future.

This Special Issue of Metabolites will be open to selected papers from this conference , in addition to other works that fall within the scope of this issue from outside this meeting.

Dr. Phil Whitfield
Dr. David Watson
Dr. Nicholas J W Rattray
Guest Editors

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