Biomarkers
Metabolomics enables the search for a metabolite indicative of normal biological process, pathological process or a response to a therapeutic or nutritional intervention.
Needs for biomarker identification cover such different areas as basic, clinical, nutritional, environmental agrochemical or pharmaceutical research.
OWL has developed most of its metabolomics applications in the field of biomedicine, ranking its biomarkers as follows:
• Diagnostic markers, that allow disease classification.
• Prognostic markers, that enable disease emergence/development.
• Predictive markers, that foretell response to a given treatment.