Navigating the Human Metabolome for Biomarker Identification and Design of Pharmaceutical Molecules

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Metabolomics holds the promise to deliver valuable information about biochemical pathways perturbed in disease and upon treatment, to monitor healthy people to detect early signs of disease, to diagnose disease or predict the risk of a disease, to subclassify disease, to make safer drugs by predicting the potential for adverse drug reactions, and to speed the discovery and development of novel drug molecules.