“Metabolomics is the study of small molecules within a biological system. Its popularity has soared in the past decade thanks to its potential to provide information on the overall physiological state of an organism.
Metabolomics techniques would not be possible without high-sensitivity, high-resolution techniques such as mass spectrometry. High-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) provides the highest degree of structural information.”
Read more over at Thermo Fisher’s Advancing Proteomics blog.
Reference
1. Ghaste, M., Mistrik R., and Shulaev, V. (2016) “Applications of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) and orbitrap based high resolution mass spectrometry in metabolomics and lipidomics,” International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 17(6) (p. 816), doi: 10.3390/ijms17060816.
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