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Nature 455, 699 (2 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/455699a; Published online 1 October 2008

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Metabolomics: Wine-omics

For Kirsten Skogerson at the University of California, Davis, wondering about how chemical composition affects the flavour and body of a wine took her from a degree in viticulture and enology into metabolomics research. When Skogerson arrived in Oliver Fiehn's lab as a postgrad she looked for a project that would marry Fiehn's expertise in metabolomics and her interest in wine.