The potential of metabolomics for Leishmania research in the post-genomics era

@article{Scheltema2010ThePO,
  title={The potential of metabolomics for Leishmania research in the post-genomics era},
  author={Richard A. Scheltema and Saskia Decuypere and Ruben T'kindt and Jean-Claude Dujardin and Graham H. Coombs and Rainer Breitling},
  journal={Parasitology},
  year={2010},
  volume={137},
  pages={1291 - 1302}
}
SUMMARY The post-genomics era has provided researchers with access to a new generation of tools for the global characterization and understanding of pathogen diversity. This review provides a critical summary of published Leishmania post-genomic research efforts to date, and discusses the potential impact of the addition of metabolomics to the post-genomic toolbox. Metabolomics aims at understanding biology by comprehensive metabolite profiling. We present an overview of the design and… 
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