Metabolomics in Environmental Science

Metabolomics is studied through the use of metabolites, enzymes, isolation tools, and metabolite analysis and labeling. The most common metabolic profiling techniques are targeted and untargeted metabolomics analysis. Targeted metabolomics analysis is the quantification of specific known metabolites in a sample, usually in well-defined pathways or groups of related compounds. In contrast, untargeted metabolomics analysis provides an overall metabolic profile of a given sample for both known and unknown metabolites. Metabolic fingerprinting is a rapid, holistic analysis of metabolites in a given sample and is not intended to be a specialized identification of each metabolite.

Environmental metabolomics is commonly used to analyze the metabolites of organisms such as plants, aquatic animals and other invertebrates when exposed to various types of external stressors. Creative Proteomics provides metabolomics solutions to accelerate scientific discovery.