Metabolomics in Toxicology: Preclinical and Clinical Applications

Metabolomics first burst into the toxicology arena approximately 10–12 years ago, experiencing rapid growth as a science in the intervening period (Fig. 1). Though metabolomics still trails the publication rates of its sister technologies, genomics and proteomics, it is closing the gap in terms of both the numbers of publications and the quality of those publications. One continuing source of confusion is differentiating the terms metabolomics,...