The ever-increasing demand for energy, along with worldwide policies aiming sustainability,
resulted in an escalation of research projects focusing on alternative routes for energy …

Metabolomics–the unbiased and non-targeted analysis of cell metabolites in biological
samples–can be considered a paradigm shift in the analytical biochemistry field that took …

'Metabolomics' or 'metabolome analysis' is a term that is now widely used in the scientific
community, but its meaning is not always clear. What exactly do people mean when they …

Highlights•Statistics has become a commodity and serves as entry into data interpretation.•
Metabolic pathway databases are incomplete and disagree on pathway …

In recent years, metabolomics developed to an accepted and valuable tool in life sciences.
Substantial improvements of analytical hardware allow metabolomics to run routinely now …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses several industrial fermentation examples. The
methodologies used in metabolic engineering and the challenges and approaches …

Today's unsustainable use of fossil fuel reserves or green fuel is predicted to destabilize the
global climate and lead to reduced food security. The key challenge for the coming decades …

The improvement of production processes to achieve commercially viable production levels
is a prerequisite to any bioprocess. Currently, production strains are enhanced using a …

The increasing focus on sustainable industrial processes for the chemical industry has
resulted recently in a number of new bio-based initiatives. Environmental pressures and a …

Microbial fermentation technology is a promising, rapidly growing, revolutionary field
involving the use of microbes for the production of compounds that are of immense use in …