Metabolomics

Metabolomics is a relatively new scientific field, which complements other OMICs strategies: genomics gives us an (ideally) complete information of all genes within an organism (its genome), transcriptomics tells us whether the genes are active (transcribed into mRNA), and proteomics describes all proteins in the cells. Metabolomics, on the other hand, provides a close-to-complete picture of small molecules, metabolites, in a cell or more generally, in a sample. By contrast to chemically uniform DNA, RNA, and proteins, metabolites are characteristic with very diverse structures of various physico-chemical properties. This makes metabolomics more challenging. We are using recent development of instrumental chemical analysis and computational tools, which allow interpretation of the complex metabolomics raw data.