Current Progress and Future Trends of Metabolomics in Food and Pharmaceutical Sciences
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Metabolomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 498
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Food Authenticity & Traceability; Functional Foods; Texture-Modified Foods; Food Innovations; Industrial Problem Solving
Interests: pharmacology; herbal medicines; natural products; green chemistry; formulation and development; drug delivery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metabolomics is a relatively emerging field that focuses on the high-throughput characterization of small molecular metabolites in biological systems. It is widely used in a variety of areas of science, particularly in the fields of food and pharmaceutical sciences. Because of its exceptional detection and prediction abilities, metabolomics is ideally suited to analyse such a complex matrix. By identifying the food's constituents at the molecular level, it is possible to better comprehend the complex relationships between a food's bioactive components and its nutritional and other effects. Identification of the health promoting compounds and metabolites in foods can be helpful in the development of functional foods and nutraceuticals. Metabolomics is a crucial method for assessing the authenticity of food. Analysing the molecular changes caused by food preparation is essential. Food safety, food quality, authenticity, and traceability are just a few of the topics that have been evaluated using metabolomics. Many metabolomics-based systems are employed in the early phases of drug discovery nowadays. Metabolomics analysis enables the defining of physiological response and target engagement (TE) markers, as well as the elucidation of the mode of action (MoA) of drug candidates under evaluation. Plant-based natural products have long been regarded as a reliable source of potential drug-active components. Natural extracts often contain hundreds to thousands of metabolites, and the bioactivity of natural extracts can be characterised by the synergism between different metabolites. The advent of metabolomics as a vital tool for the examination of thousands of metabolites from crude natural extracts has resulted in a paradigm shift in the study of natural products as drugs.
Dr. Eng-Keng Seow
Dr. Mahendran Sekar
Dr. Weidong Dai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metabolomics
- food science
- pharmaceutical sciences
- drug discovery
- natural products
