Contributors. Preface. 1. Introduction; G.G. Harrigan, R. Goodacre. 2. Metabolome and Proteome Profiling for Microbial Characterization; S. Vaidyanathan, R. Goodacre. 3. Can 1H NMR Derived Metabolic Profiles Contribute to Proteomic Analyses? J.L. Griffin, E. Sang. 4. Application of Metabonomics in the Pharmaceutical Industry; A.P. Breau, G.H. Cantor. 5. Metabolic Profiling in Tumors by in Vivo and in Vitro NMR Spectroscopy; Yeun-Li Chung, M. Stubbs, J. Griffiths. 6. Raman Spectroscopy for Whole Organism and Tissue Profiling; S. Clarke, R. Goodacre. 7. Metabolic Fingerprinting with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy; D.I. Ellis, G.G. Harrigan, R. Goodacre. 8. Metabolomic Analysis with with Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectroscopy; D. Goodenowe. 9. Stable Isotope-Based Dynamic Metabolic Profiling in Disease and Health; L.G. Boros, M. Cascante, W.-N.P. Lee. 10. The role of Metabolomics in Systems Biology; J.van der Greef, E. Davidov, E. Verheij, J. Vogels, R.van der Heijden, A.S. Adourian, M. Oresic, E.W. Marple, S. Naylor. 11. Use of Metabolomics to Discover Metabolic Patterns Associated with Human Diseases; O. Fiehn, J. Spranger. 12. Bioactive Lipids in Reproductive Diseases; J. Chaudhary, T. Compton, J.A. Parrott. 13. Evolutionary Computation for the Interpretation of Metabolomic Data; R. Goodacre, D.B. Kell. 14. Dynamic Profiling and Canonical Modeling; E.O. Voit, J. Almeida. 15. Databases, Data Modeling and Schemas; N. Hardy, H. Fuell. 16. Databases and Visualization for Metabolomics; X. Jing Lee, O. Brazhnik, A. Kamal, D. Guo, C. Lee, S. Hoops, P. Mendes. 17. The Human Metabolome. C.W.W. Beecher. Index.