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The term “omics” refers to the comprehensive analysis of a specific biological system. With the development of omics, a number of omics subdisciplines have emerged, which play an important role in system biology. As a subdiscipline of omics, metabolomics provides a comprehensive analysis of the metabolome and has been widely applied to various fields of biology. In this paper, we introduce the concept, approaches, applications, and promising prospects of metabolomics.
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Zhang, X., Chen, H. Metabolomics: Concept, methods and potential prospect in marine biology. Chin. Sci. Bull. 57, 3253–3261 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-012-5237-5
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