This book brings together contributions from global experts who have helped to facilitate the
exciting and rapid advances that are taking place in microbial metabolomics. The main
application of this field is in clinical and veterinary microbiology but there is a great
potential to apply metabolomics to help to better understand complex biological systems that
are dominated by multiple-species microbial populations exposed to changing growth and
nutritional conditions. In particular environmental (e.g. water soil) food (e.g. microbial
spoilage food pathogens) and agricultural and industrial applications are seen as developing
areas for microbial metabolomics. As such the book includes contributions with clinical
environmental and industrial perspectives.
