Metabolomics is a newly developed discipline after genomics and proteomics, and is an important component of systems biology. Afterwards, it rapidly developed and penetrated into multiple fields, such as disease diagnosis, pharmaceutical research and development, nutritional food science, toxicology, environmental science, botany, and other fields closely related to human health care.
The concept of metabolomics comes from metabolomics, which is a branch of systems biology based on group indicator analysis, using high-throughput detection and data processing as means, and targeting information modeling and system integration.
Spatial Metabolomics is a method of metabolomics analysis of samples based on mass spectrometry imaging technology. It can further expand the type and content information of sample metabolites in metabolomics to the spatial level, and achieve the analysis of differential changes in biological metabolism processes from qualitative, quantitative, and positioning dimensions.
