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	Analisi Metabolomica	Analisi di Arricchimento dei Percorsi
Campo	Bioinformatica	Bioinformatica
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1998–2002	2003–2005
Ideatore	Oliver et al. (coining of 'metabolomics'); Oliver Fiehn (systematic framework)	Mootha et al. (2003); systematised by Subramanian et al. (2005)
Tipo	Quantitative omics pipeline	Statistical functional annotation method
Fonte seminale	Fiehn, O. (2002). Metabolomics — the link between genotypes and phenotypes. Plant Molecular Biology, 48(1-2), 155–171.	Subramanian, A., Tamayo, P., Mootha, V. K., Mukherjee, S., Ebert, B. L., Gillette, M. A., Paulovich, A., Pomeroy, S. L., Golub, T. R., Lander, E. S., & Mesirov, J. P. (2005). Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(43), 15545–15550.
Alias	metabolome profiling, metabolic profiling, metabonomics, metabolite profiling	PEA, overrepresentation analysis, ORA, functional enrichment analysis
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	Metabolomics analysis is the large-scale, systematic measurement of small-molecule metabolites in a biological sample to characterise the metabolome — the complete set of metabolic intermediates and products present under defined conditions. By coupling high-throughput analytical platforms such as mass spectrometry (MS) or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy with multivariate statistics and pathway databases, metabolomics bridges the genotype–phenotype gap and captures the downstream functional output of genes, transcripts, and proteins in real time.	Pathway enrichment analysis (PEA) is a statistical approach that takes a list of genes or proteins of interest — typically derived from a differential expression or proteomics experiment — and identifies which pre-defined biological pathways or functional gene sets are represented more often than expected by chance. By mapping individual molecular changes onto curated pathway knowledge bases such as KEGG, Gene Ontology, or Reactome, PEA translates long gene lists into interpretable biological processes, making it a central tool in the post-analysis of high-throughput omics experiments.