“…It is constantly evolving and taking advantage of new developments in analytical chemistry, including analytical techniques, instrumentation, analytical software, statistical methods, or computational techniques to accelerate or improve data collection, data analysis, and data interpretation. The primary analytical technologies used in metabolomics include liquid chromatography coupled with single-stage mass spectrometry (LC-MS) [1,2,3] or tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) [4,5,6,7,8,9], gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) [1,2,10,11], high or ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography coupled to UV or fluorescent detection (HPLC/UPLC) [12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19], and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy [20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27]. Each analytical platform has its own advantages and disadvantages.…”