Metabolomics will publish a substantial share of the most significant current research in the areas of: various technology platform development for metabolomics, metabolite target analysis, metabolic profiling, and metabolic fingerprinting; improvements in data preparation, storage, curation and analyses; comparative integrated studies with transcriptomics and proteomics including within a systems biology context; and the application of metabolomics as it relates to man, animals, plants.

代謝組學將在以下領域發表大量當前最重要的研究成果:代謝組學的各種技術平臺開發、代謝產物目標分析、代謝側寫和代謝指紋圖譜;改進數據準備、存儲、管理和分析;比較轉錄組學和蛋白質組學的綜合研究，包括在系統生物學的背景下;以及代謝組學在人、動物、植物等方面的應用。