Glycomics and Metabolomics

Glycomics is a field in genetics that uses recombinant DNA, DNA sequencing methods and bioinformatics to sequence, assemble and analyze the function and structure of glycans along with the genomes. Metabolomics is concerned with the systematic study of the biological products or metabolites that cells and organisms produce. Certainly, most human metabolomics reports published today, even those developing the recent and most sensitive LC-MS/MS technologies, typically succeed in recognizing or characterising fewer than 100 compounds. This comprises the human cerebrospinal fluid metabolome: the human saliva metabolome and the human serum metabolome.