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Current investigations of mammalian chemical signals are providing biologically useful information. Precision of profiling data has become substantially improved due to better sampling methodologies, selective detection techniques and vastly improved mass-spectrometric instrumentation. This, in turn, facilitates the use of powerful chemometric methodologies in evaluation of large data sets and a future integration of volatile profiling data into the systems biology knowledge.
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Novotny, M.V., Soini, H.A. (2008). Volatile Mammalian Chemosignals: Structural and Quantitative Aspects. In: Hurst, J.L., Beynon, R.J., Roberts, S.C., Wyatt, T.D. (eds) Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 11. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73945-8_1
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