Metabolomics: A Promising Tool for Environmental Sciences?
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Metabolomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2024 | Viewed by 472
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental chemistry; environmental microbiology; analytical techniques; microbial ecology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metabolomics is a recent science that appeared about 20 years ago and allows for the study of all the small organic molecules (<1500 Da), called metabolites, present within a biological system (endogenous) or coming from the environment (exogenous). It is now widely used in fields such as basic biology, medicine, clinical pharmacology, toxicology, and nutrition, but its use in environmental science is still limited. Thus, significant challenges still remain in this field, and in particular, many methodological developments regarding analytical data acquisition procedures (suitable sampling, sample preparation, and extract analysis) need to be largely pursued. In addition, appropriate statistical tools for the analysis of large metabolomic datasets must also be strengthened. Thus, the correct interpretation of environmental metabolomics data requires constant methodological development. In order to provide complementary information, this approach can be coupled with other omics methods such as metabarcoding or metatranscriptomics in order to propose new methods of investigation in environmental sciences.
The objective of this Special Issue is to highlight the latest applied research in environmental metabolomics and to provide an update on possible coupling between metabolomics and other omics data.
Dr. Christophe Calvayrac
Dr. Marie-Virginie Salvia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metabolomics
- environmental sciences
- data processing
- metabarcoding
- metatranscriptomics
