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Metabolomics Open-access Journals

Metabolomics is the scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites, the small molecule substrates, intermediates and products of metabolism. Specifically, metabolomics is the "systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind", the study of their small-molecule metabolite profiles. The metabolome represents the complete set of metabolites in a biological cell, tissue, organ or organism, which are the end products of cellular processes. mRNA gene expression data and proteomic analyses reveal the set of gene products being produced in the cell, data that represents one aspect of cellular function. Conversely, metabolic profiling can give an instantaneous snapshot of the physiology of that cell, and thus, metabolomics provides a direct "functional readout of the physiological state" of an organism. One of the challenges of systems biology and functional genomics is to integrate genomics, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic information to provide a better understanding of cellular biology. Metabolome refers to the complete set of small-molecule metabolites (such as metabolic intermediates, hormones and other signaling molecules, and secondary metabolites) to be found within a biological sample, such as a single organism.The word was coined in analogy with transcriptomics and proteomics; like the transcriptome  and the proteome, the metabolome is dynamic, changing from second to second. Although the metabolome can be defined readily enough, it is not currently possible to analyse the entire range of metabolites by a single analytical method. The first metabolite database (called METLIN) for searching fragmentation  data from tandem mass spectrometry experiments was developed by the Siuzdak lab at The Scripps Research Institute in 2005. METLIN contains over 450,000 metabolites and other chemical entities, each compound having experimental  tandem mass spectrometry data. In 2006, the Siuzdak lab also developed the first algorithm to allow for the nonlinear alignment of mass spectrometry metabolomics data. Called XCMS, where the "X" constitutes any chromatographic  technology, it has since been developed as an online tool and as of 2019 (with METLIN) has over 30,000 registered users. Metabolomics is the large-scale study of small molecules, commonly known as metabolites, within cells, bio fluids, tissues or organisms. Metabolomics open-access journals has been successfully publishing quality Research articles from many years and looking forward to frame up eminent, outstanding issues with best quality research articles in this year. We request you to kindly submit and publish your paper in this best journal and get global acknowledgment.

Last Updated on: Jul 05, 2024

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