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Systems biology, metabolic modelling and metabolomics in drug discovery and development

2006; Elsevier BV; Volume: 11; Issue: 23-24 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.drudis.2006.10.004

1878-5832

Douglas B. Kell,

Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

Unlike signalling pathways, metabolic networks are subject to strict stoichiometric constraints. Metabolomics amplifies changes in the proteome, and represents more closely the phenotype of an organism. Recent advances enable the production (and computer-readable encoding as SBML) of metabolic network models reconstructed from genome sequences, as well as experimental measurements of much of the metabolome. There is increasing convergence between the number of human metabolites estimated via genomics (∼3000) and the number measured experimentally. It is thus both timely, and now possible, to bring these two approaches together as an integrated (if distributed) whole to help understand the genesis of metabolic biomarkers, the progress of disease, and the modes of action, efficacy, off-target effects and toxicity of pharmaceutical drugs.