Title: metabolomics
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - metabolomics
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.09804
Status: current

Definition
Complex and comprehensive study of metabolome; identification and quantification of the small molecule metabolic products of a biological system (cell, tissue, organ, biological fluid, or organism) at a specific point in time.

Note
An essential part of systems biology in addition to genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, interactomics, and fluxomics.

Related Terms
- fluxomics: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09796
- interactomics: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09872
- metabolome: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09803
- proteomics: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09780

Source
- PAC, 2018, 90, 1121. 'Terminology of bioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2018)' on page 1168 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2016-1120)

Other Outputs
- html: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09804/html
- json: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09804/json
- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09804/xml

Citation: Citation: 'metabolomics' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.09804
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