Challenges and Opportunities in Application of Mass Spectrometry for Metabolomics and Lipidomics
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Metabolomic Profiling Technology".
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the Special Issue titled "Challenges and Opportunities in Mass-Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics and Lipidomics", aiming to highlight new scientific applications in mass spectrometry-based metabolomics and lipidomics and address the associated challenges.
Metabolomics is an interdisciplinary field that brings together experts from various disciplines such as analytical chemistry, biochemistry, statistics, biology, computational science and medicine. Among the various analytical platforms available, mass spectrometry stands out as a primary tool for exploring the metabolome due to its high sensitivity and specificity in chemical analyses. It is often used in conjunction with separation techniques such as gas or liquid chromatography—and more recently ion mobility—to improve the analysis of complex samples.
While significant progress has been made in the metabolomics and lipidomics fields, several challenges remain. These include the annotation of metabolites in discovery-based studies, the validation of proposed biomarkers, the development of user-friendly visualization methods for interpreting multivariate analysis outputs, the standardization of large data processing workflows, the achievement of consistent results in inter-laboratory comparisons and the translation of findings into clinical settings.
We encourage researchers to submit their work to this Special Issue covering original research and review articles which address analytical challenges, new advances, and recent applications in mass-spectrometry-based metabolomics and lipidomics.
Dr. Konstantinos Kouremenos
Dr. David J. Beale
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metabolomics
- lipidomics
- separation science
- mass spectrometry
- bioinformatics
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