Metabolomics and Proteomics

Metabolomics

Metabolomics is the scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites, the small molecule substrates, intermediates and products of metabolism. It is the "systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind", the study of their small-molecule metabolite Profiles.  The word metabolite represents the complete set of metabolites in a biological cell, tissue, organ or organism, which are the end products of cellular processes. Metabolomics provides a direct "functional readout of the physiological state" of an organism. One of the challenges of systems biology and functional genomics is to integrate genomics, transcriptomic , proteomic, and metabolomic information to provide a better understanding of cellular biology.