Mass spectrometry based proteomics and metabolomics: Phenotyping in the post-genomics era

Abstract Text: While genome data is more readily available than ever before, the genome in isolation fails to describe the phenotype of an organism in a given condition.  This limitation has driven the development of high throughput and broad scale phenotyping efforts.   Metabolomics and proteomics are two phenotyping platforms which aim to describe the biochemical phenotype of an organism, and how it responds to the environment.  This presentation will describe these two ‘omics’ fields broadly, introduce the chromatographic and mass spectrometry technology that is being used toward these ends, and describe selected case studies implementing these platforms.    

Keywords: Metabolomics, Proteomics, Phenotype