Metabolomics: Practical Guide to Design and Analysis

1st Edition edited by Ron Wehrens and Reza Salek

Metabolomics is the scientific study of the chemical processes in a living system, environment and nutrition. It is a relatively new omics science, but the potential applications are wide, including medicine, personalized medicine and intervention studies, food and nutrition, plants, agriculture and environmental science. The topics presented and discussed in this book are based on the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) practical courses in metabolomics bioinformatics taught to those working in the field, from masters to postgraduate students, PhDs, postdoctoral and early PIs. The book covers the basics and fundamentals of data acquisition and analytical technologies, but the primary focus is data handling and data analysis. The mentioning and usage of a particular data analysis tool has been avoided; rather, the focus is on the concepts and principles of data processing and analysis. The material has been class-tested and includes lots of examples, computing and exercises. See here more details on the goal of the Book and who should read it

Key Features:

• Provides an overview of qualitative /quantitative methods in metabolomics
• Offers an introduction to the key concepts of metabolomics, including experimental design and technology
• Covers data handling, processing, analysis, data standards and sharing
• Contains lots of examples to illustrate the topics
• Includes contributions from some of the leading researchers in the field of metabolomics with extensive teaching experiences

Book Main Chapters

• Overview of Metabolomics - Oscar Yanes, Reza Salek, Igor Marin, Marta Cascante
• Study Design and Preparation - Pietro Franceschi, Oscar Yanes and Ron Wehrens
• Measurement Technologies - Oscar Yanes, Katherine Hollywood, Roland Mumm, Maria Vinaixa, Naomi Rankin, Ron Wehrens & Reza Salek
• Mass Spectrometry Data Processing - Steffen Neumann, Oscar Yanes, Roland Mumm, Pietro Franceschi -Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Data Processing - Maria Vinaixa, Naomi Rankin, Jeremy Everett and Reza Salek
• Statistics: the essentials - Ron Wehrens and Pietro Franceschi
• Data fusion in metabolomics - Johan A. Westerhuis, Frans van der Kloet, Age K. Smilde
• Genome-scale metabolic networks - Clément Frainay & Fabien Jourdan
• Metabolic flux - Igor Marín de Mas and Marta Cascante
• Data Sharing and Standards - Reza Salek

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