The study of biological systems in a holistic manner (systems biology) is increasingly being
viewed as a necessity to provide qualitative and quantitative descriptions of the emergent …

Background The soil represents a reservoir that contains at least twice as much carbon as
does the atmosphere, yet (apart from 'root crops') mainly just the above-ground plant …

There is a general consensus that supports the need for standardized reporting of metadata
or information describing large-scale metabolomics and other functional genomics data sets …

The concept of metabolite profiling has been around for decades, but technical innovations
are now enabling it to be carried out on a large scale with respect to the number of both …

Metabolic profiling, metabolomic and metabonomic studies mainly involve the
multicomponent analysis of biological fluids, tissue and cell extracts using NMR …

Metabolomics, in particular gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) based
metabolite profiling of biological extracts, is rapidly becoming one of the cornerstones of …

Untargeted metabolomics aims to gather information on as many metabolites as possible in
biological systems by taking into account all information present in the data sets. Here we …

Improved genotypes developed by plant breeding remain pivotal to global food security. In
the wake of ever-increasing human population, declining agricultural resources and the …

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Metabolite identification represents a major bottleneck in contemporary metabolomics
research and a step where critical errors may occur and pass unnoticed. This is especially …