Exploring the OMICS Platforms in Food Analysis II
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 10411
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food chemistry; food composition; food bioactive; foodomics; fgeographical markers; food markers; food authenticity; fraceability; food contaminants; microextraction techniques; instrumental techniques
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Interests: food chemistry; molecular markers; natural products; food bioactive components; analytical chemistry
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Interests: food composition in bioactive compounds; food quality and degradation; markers for food origin and authenticity; microextraction; chromatographic analysis; foodomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first edition of the Special Issue on “Exploring the OMICS Platforms in Food Analysis” was very rewarding, comprising fourteen papers. Thus, due to the great success of this first edition, we are pleased to inform you that Molecules will be launching a second edition of the Special Issue.
Since antiquity, scientists have been concerned with food and nutrition issues, the most significant discoveries coming from the late 1700s. Prominent scientists, including Antoine Lavoisier, Gay-Lussac, and Jacob Berzelius, studied foods intensively and made discoveries of fundamental importance to food chemistry. Impressive developments in different fields changed the food analysis paradigm, which has moved from classical methodologies to advanced technologies that have been well established.
Currently, research in food science and nutrition is boosted thanks to the great potential offered by foodomics in unraveling the vast complexities of food metabolomes at the genetic and molecular levels, through the employment of advanced OMICS tools, namely, metabolomics, lipidomics, proteomics, and genomics.
Assuming an increasing centrality on the systematic establishment of metabolomes, volatomes, lipidomes, proteomes, and genomes, OMICS technologies have now emerged as self-standing research fields relying on well-established and recognized analytical methods, such as mass spectrometry techniques (GC-MS and LC-MS/MS), in addition to modern spectroscopic approaches based on NMR (1H; 13C), IR and sensor technologies, to better characterize food matrices, identifying their components and defining nutritional properties. This comprehensive strategy, based on the integration of foodomic platforms, combined with high-resolution analytical approaches and data processing, can help us to elucidate some critical issues in food analysis related with food safety and food quality. In turn, this will progress our understanding of the biochemical, molecular, and cellular mechanisms related with the health benefits of bioactive food components.
This Special Issue aims to attract contributions on all aspects of food science, food chemistry, and food analysis supported by different OMICS platforms. There is still the challenge to further explore food authentication and adulteration in addition to food safety and nutrition issues based on different high-throughput analytical methodologies.
Prof. Dr. José Sousa Câmara
Dr. Rosa Perestrelo
Dr. Jorge Pereira
Guest Editors
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- Exploring the OMICS Platforms in Food Analysis in Molecules (14 articles)
