Chemometrics

摘要

This review, the seventeenth of this series and the fifteenth with the title of Chemometrics, covers the most significant developments in the field from January 2006 through December 2007. As in the previous review (1), breakthroughs and advances in the field are highlighted, and trends within the field are evaluated. As is the current restriction for such reviews, the limit for citations is less than 200 references, which continues to pose a challenge since the number of citations in the field of chemometrics continues to grow. If you include the broader areas of image data analysis, digital and signal processing, photonics, biophysics, drug discovery, sensors, in silico processing for high throughput screening, structure and toxicity analysis, genetic analysis, and the like, the number of papers "balloons" significantly. There are many thousands of citations across these fields specifically dealing with chemometric-like data processing methods during 2006 and 2007. This should come as no surprise since disciplines related to computer science, informatics, chemoinformatics, bioinformatics, and all engineering disciplines, including bioengineering are facile in the use of multivariate analysis methods for both basic research and applied science. During 2006 and 2007, a large number of review articles on chemometrics and applications of chemometrics to fields other than chemistry have appeared in the literature. The biannual reviews in analytical chemistry include process analytical chemistry (2), gas chromatography (3), and quantitative structure-retention relationships (4). A review of multivariate autofluorescence of intact food systems was also published during this period (5).