Towards a Rosetta stone for metabolomics: recommendations to overcome inconsistent metabolite nomenclature



: Koistinen Ville, Kärkkäinen Olli, Keski-Rahkonen Pekka, Tsugawa Hiroshi, Scalbert Augustin, Arita Masanori, Wishart David, Hanhineva Kati

Publisher: NATURE PORTFOLIO

: 2023

: Nature Metabolism

: NATURE METABOLISM

: NAT METAB

: 5

: 351

: 354

: 4

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00757-3(external)

: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-023-00757-3(external)


The metabolomics literature suffers from ambiguity in the nomenclature for individual metabolites, which introduces a disconnect between publications and leads to misinterpretations. This Comment proposes recommendations for metabolite annotations to engage the scientific community and publishers to adopt a more consistent approach to metabolite nomenclature.



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