Symbiosis of chemometrics and metabolomics: past, present, and future

Abstract Metabolomics is a growing area in the field of systems biology. Metabolomics has already a long history and also the connection of metabolomics with chemometrics goes back some time. This review discusses the symbiosis of metabolomics and chemometrics with emphasis on the medical domain, puts the combination of the two in historical perspective and tries to give ideas for future research. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.