Metabolite identification is a well-known bottleneck in metabolomics analyses, but actually, even when you identify a compound, you will face the situation that the compound is included in various databases and publications with multiple different names – which one to use in your publication? We addressed this issue in our commentary paper just published in Nature Metabolism (available here), and listed suggestions and procedures that hopefully will lead to better, uniform practices related to this matter.
A step towards more consistent metabolite nomenclature
Metabolite identification is a well-known bottleneck in metabolomics analyses, but actually, even when you identify a compound, you will face the situation that the compound is included in various databases…
