What can metabolomics reveal about disease states?

A recent study identified several factors that could predict Long COVID using a multiomic approach that included metabolomics. Aisha Al-Janabi speaks to the researchers behind the study, and to a metabolomics expert to find out more about the techniques involved and how the study of metabolites can be used to understand disease. Welcome to the omics family Omics consists of several areas of study and uses high-throughput biochemical assays to measure and analyze molecules in a biological sample [1]. These molecules include DNA and genetic information in genomics analysis; RNA and mRNA expression in transcriptomic studies; proteins using proteomics analysis;...