Conference Report: Advances in Metabolic Profiling

The main topics of this conference were based around new technologies and applications of metabolomics in healthcare, bioscience and environmental applications. There were sessions themed on ‘Novel Approaches and Technology in Metabolomics’, ‘Disease in Metabolomics’, ‘Data Processing and Functional Metabolomics’, and ‘Plant and Environmental Metabolomics’. Analytical methodologies favored included targeted metabolite analysis (LC–MS/MS, GC–MS), global metabolite analysis (LC-accurate mass, direct injection MS) and NMR. Jules Griffin (University of Cambridge, UK) started the conference by demonstrating the advantages of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model species for metabolomics studies. This easy maintenance organism comes with a modestly sized genome already...