Frontiers in Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

The purpose of this Special Issue is to invite state-of-the-art research reports and review articles around the topic of mass-spectrometry-based metabolomics analysis. By now, it is well recognized that technologies for metabolomics analysis must allow separating, detecting, quantifying, and identifying many individual metabolites present within a complicated biological matrix (such as tissue, cell, biofluids, or breath), a changeling task given the approximately tens of thousands of human metabolites, plus drugs, food components, and bacterial metabolites. Due to this large number of analytes to be detected, it is clear that not one analytical technique will cover the entire metabolome. At the frontier of techniques used for metabolomics studies, mass-spectrometry-based techniques offer an excellent combination of sensitivity and selectivity and can be used for high throughput analysis which fits perfectly in a fast-paced research lab/clinical diagnostic laboratory setting. We welcome a broad range of manuscript submissions from mass spectrometry technique development to applications. We also welcome topics related to metabolic profiling, disease biomarker discoveries using metabolomics, metabolomics-based system biology studies, metabolic flux analysis, and advanced metabolomics data analysis. Both research reports and review articles will be considered.

Sincerely,

Dr. Jiangjiang(Chris) Zhu
Prof. Dr. Huiru Tang
Prof. Dr. Jiuming He
Guest Editors

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