Wine metabolomics - what's in a name?

摘要

Metabolomics continues to be a rapidly emerging field of analytical science with particular relevance to food authentication. The recent review of metabolomics and wine (Alanon et al., TRAC 2015, vol. 74 pp. 1-20) describes metabolomics as the application of 'powerful, robust analytical techniques' such as NMR, LC-MS, GC-MS and FTICR that provide 'high-dimensional data that require advanced chemometric tools in order to handle these datasets appropriately and to assess the chemical composition holistically'. All a bit of a mouthful really, but it does get the concept across.