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

Welcome to your Module 4 EN

What is metabolomics?

Microbial metabolomics is used in industrial biotechnology to optimize fermentation processes, improve the production of biofuels and other bioproducts, and to create microorganisms for specific industrial applications.

What techniques and methods are used for environmental metabolomic studies?

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.

Which science studies the metabolome of microbial communities?

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.

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

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.

What types of stressors affect environmental metabolomics?

Metabolomic analysis does not identify specific changes that occur in the metabolic profile of bacteria after exposure to heavy metal.