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2023-1-BG01-KA220-HED-000155777 – DigiOmica

Welcome to your Module 4 EN

Microbial communities are crucial for the maintenance of life and are closely related to the chemical and physical properties of the living environment.

What is metabolomics?

No major metabolomic changes are observed in bacteria exposed to heavy metals.

Metabolomics is used to characterize the toxicity of environmental pollutants and assess the risk of diseases resulting from these pollutants.

Metabolic engineering is a dynamic field in biology that focuses on changes in metabolic pathways in living organisms to create new or improved products or processes.

Ecology is a science, a part of biology, that studies the interactions between organisms and the environment in which they live. The main subject of ecological study is ecosystems, interconnected networks of plants, animals, and other organisms in a given geographical area that depend on each other.

What techniques and methods are used for environmental metabolomic studies?

Analytical techniques used to track metabolites include: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), FPLC, mass spectrometry, 1D-PAGE, mathematics, and computer science.

Metabolites are small molecules, such as amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleotides, and other end or intermediate products of metabolism, that play a key role in cellular processes.

Ecometabolomics analyzes the metabolome, the total number of metabolites and their changes in response to environmental changes.