“Quantitative metabolomics: a phantom?” – review published in Trends in Biotechnology

Quantitiative metabolomics belongs to the most important tools for metabolic engineering and systems biology of microorganism. Since almost 10 years, the IBG-1 is successfully working on the continuous improvement of underlying measurement methods. However, the accurate determination of intracellular metabolite concentrations is still a great challenge regarding both the experimental and analytical part. In our recent article “Quantitative metabolomics: a phantom?” we critically discuss the actual state of the art in quantitative metabolomics and especially focus on potential errors sources during sample processing and analysis, and discuss concrete approaches to minimize them.



The article is published in “Trends in Biotechnology“ and can be directly downloaded here:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167779914000560