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While traditional nutrition science is focusing on nourishing population, modern nutrition is aiming at benefiting individual people. The goal of modern nutritional research is to promote health, prevent diseases, and improve performance. With the development of modern technologies like bioinformatics, metabolomics, and molecular genetics, this goal is becoming more attainable. In this chapter, we will discuss the new concepts and technologies especially in informatics and molecular genetics and genomics, and how they have been implemented to change the nutrition science and lead to the emergence of new branches like nutrigenomics, nutrigenetics, and nutritional metabolomics.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China grants (31400712) and Technology R&D Program of Suzhou (SYN201409).
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Gao, Y., Chen, J. (2017). Informatics for Nutritional Genetics and Genomics. In: Shen, B. (eds) Translational Informatics in Smart Healthcare. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1005. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5717-5_7
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