Metabolic Pathway Profiling and Untargeted/Targeted Analysis of Metabolites

Dear Colleagues,

Metabolomics, including the untargeted and targeted analysis of it, as well as metabolic pathway profiling, have built a rich history for the analysis of small biomolecules which represent ‘metabolite and pathway profiles’ in biofluid, cell, and tissue extracts. Since metabolites provide the phenotypic outcome of gene expression or metabolic activities of a cell or organism, these analytical techniques can give a rapid snapshot of the cell physiology and provide insight into relationships between genotype and phenotype. Therefore, untargeted/targeted analysis and metabolic pathway profiles have been increasingly used in a variety of research areas, such as medicine, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, plant, food, microbiology, and nutrients.

Therefore, this Special Issue of Metabolites, “Metabolic Pathway Profiling and Untargeted/Targeted Analysis of Metabolites”, will be dedicated for publishing a wide range of applicatoins of metabolomics techniques to various research fileds mentioned above and a cutting-edge technology development to significantly enhance the sensitivity and selectivity of the detection of small molecules in a biological sample. Any research on computational tools to improve pre-processing of metabolomics data and metabolite identification is also highly desired.

Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim
Guest Editor

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