Methoden vergelijken

	Pathway-verrijkingsanalyse	Metabolomicsanalyse
Vakgebied	Bio-informatica	Bio-informatica
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Jaar van ontstaan	2003–2005	1998–2002
Grondlegger	Mootha et al. (2003); systematised by Subramanian et al. (2005)	Oliver et al. (coining of 'metabolomics'); Oliver Fiehn (systematic framework)
Type	Statistical functional annotation method	Quantitative omics pipeline
Oorspronkelijke bron	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.	Fiehn, O. (2002). Metabolomics — the link between genotypes and phenotypes. Plant Molecular Biology, 48(1-2), 155–171.
Aliassen	PEA, overrepresentation analysis, ORA, functional enrichment analysis	metabolome profiling, metabolic profiling, metabonomics, metabolite profiling
Verwant	6	6
Samenvatting	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.	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.