date:Sep 13, 2012
reference data to arrive at conclusive metabolite identifications, said team leader Gary Siuzdak, a metabolomics expert at Scripps Research Institute, USA where the database was developed.
For decades biochemical studies have targeted only a handful of canonical metabolites, and comprehensive profiling has been mostly limited to genes and proteins, added Gary Patti, who was involved in developing the database.
But now he says the new field of metabolomics has emerged with huge promise for adv