METABOLIC PROFILING - A DI-LEMMA FOR MASS-SPECTROMETRY

This article will present a personal view of metabolic profiling by ma ss spectrometry, predominantly gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (G C/MS)-its strengths and its weaknesses, its needs and its wants, and h ow it might best be used and, perhaps, how it should not. This will be my own perspective on this subject-if it seems narrow of scope it wil l be so because it has become difficult to be a successful 'Jack-of-al l-trades' in this business.