date:Sep 13, 2012
A massive new online metabolite database could soon be helping to transform the field of metabolomics research, say its creators.
The newly expanded searchable database, called METLIN, is described in this months issue of Nature Biotechnology, where researchers outline the potential benefits of the new resource.
If you don't have a database like METLIN, the value of metabomic data would be very limited because each study would require manual searches and ultimately fail to culminate in enough