Bioinformatics in Metabolomics
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioinformatics and Data Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2018) | Viewed by 11541
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lipidomics; metabolomics; bioanalytics; fluxomics; analytical chemistry; plant physiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past decade and a half, bioinformatics has evolved from the role of being a support science to now becoming an integral part of all areas of metabolomics. Bioinformatic-defined models and solutions are part of the entire workflow of metabolomics, starting from methodically defining and capturing an experiment using standards, managing the vast amount of high-throughput data arising from these experiments, making sense of these data using data processing and statistical analysis methods, and finally relating the findings back to the underlying question using data integration, pathway analysis and visualization models. This Special Issue focuses on bioinformatics methods, tools, systems and solutions in metabolomics. Specific areas include, but not limited to, data standards, data management solution, database systems, data processing and statistical methods, pathway analysis and visualization techniques.
Dr. Thusitha W. Rupasinghe
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metabolomics bioinformatics
- data processing
- statistical analysis
- data management
- database systems
- data visualization
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