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Also known as metabolomic chemistry

thumb|The central principle of biology showing the flow of information from [[DNA to the phenotype. Associated with each stage is the corresponding systems biology tool, from genomics to metabolomics.]]

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15 sections
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  • History
  • Metabolome
  • Metabolites
  • Metabonomics
  • Exometabolomics
  • Analytical technologies
  • Separation methods
  • Detection methods
  • Statistical methods
  • Machine learning and data mining
  • Key applications
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|The central principle of biology showing the flow of information from [[DNA to the phenotype. Associated with each stage is the corresponding systems biology tool, from genomics to metabolomics.]]

Metabolomics is the scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites, the small molecule substrates, intermediates, and products of cell 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “metabolomics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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