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ArticleComparative and functional genomics2001

Combining genomics, metabolome analysis, and biochemical modelling to understand metabolic networks.

O Fiehn

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Article in Comparative and functional genomics, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 217 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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217citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

217 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 909 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Mass Spectrometry-Based Methods for Plant Metabolite Profiling.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  19. Dissecting inflammation in the immunemetabolomic era.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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  20. The role of salivary metabolomics in chronic periodontitis: bridging oral and systemic diseases.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2025
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157 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

O FiehnMax-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, 14424 Potsdam, Germany. fiehn@mpimp-golm.mpg.de
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Now that complete genome sequences are available for a variety of organisms, the elucidation of gene functions involved in metabolism necessarily includes a better understanding of cellular responses upon mutations on all levels of gene products, mRNA, proteins, and metabolites. Such progress is essential since the observable properties of organisms - the phenotypes - are produced by the genotype in juxtaposition with the environment. Whereas much has been done to make mRNA and protein profiling possible, considerably less effort has been put into profiling the end products of gene expression, metabolites. To date, analytical approaches have been aimed primarily at the accurate quantification of a number of pre-defined target metabolites, or at producing fingerprints of metabolic changes without individually determining metabolite identities. Neither of these approaches allows the formation of an in-depth understanding of the biochemical behaviour within metabolic networks. Yet, by carefully choosing protocols for sample preparation and analytical techniques, a number of chemically different classes of compounds can be quantified simultaneously to enable such understanding. In this review, the terms describing various metabolite-oriented approaches are given, and the differences among these approaches are outlined. Metabolite target analysis, metabolite profiling, metabolomics, and metabolic fingerprinting are considered. For each approach, a number of examples are given, and potential applications are discussed.

Identifiers

PMID18628911
PMCPMC2447208
OpenAlexW2120714068

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