Analytical Microbiology

Dear Colleagues,

Since its initial scope as a branch of microbiology in which microorganisms were used as ‘reagents’ for the quantitative determination of certain compounds in health and ecological environments, analytical microbiology has evolved, together with the development of analytical chemistry, towards its application in microorganism identification, systematics, and diagnosis. Currently, it also includes the characterization of known and unknown metabolites that microorganisms produce, both constitutively or as a consequence of their interactions with other microorganisms, or even after the introduction of engineered pathways, as well as the description of their metabolomic responses to epigenetic modifiers or chemical elicitors, aiming towards the identification, structural elucidation, and quantification of response biomarkers and potential bioactive agents.
Miniaturization and computer-assisted processing of large sets of analytical data from highly sensitive techniques, especially innovative mass spectrometry combined with hightroughput gas or liquid chromatography, are advancing analytical microbiology towards a new level of understanding of how microorganims, individually or in communities such as the microbiome, react to their environment, and how changes in their growth conditions can affect the molecular networks they produce.
This Special Issue of Molecules aims to cover current analytical microbiology and how chemical innovations and big data processing may open future trends in the field.

Dr. José Rubén Tormo
Guest Editor

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