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Nature Biotechnology 26, 162–164 (1 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/nbt0208-162

Metabolite identification via the Madison Metabolomics Consortium Database

Qiu Cui , Ian A Lewis , Adrian D Hegeman , Mark E Anderson , Jing Li , Christopher F Schulte , William M Westler , Hamid R Eghbalnia , Michael R Sussman & John L Markley

To the editor: High-throughput metabolic profiling, known as metabolomics or metabonomics, has been an active area of research for over 35 years. The most commonly employed analytical tools, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS), have been used extensively to study metabolites in a wide range of biological systems.