Nowadays, boundaries among the different research disciplines are becoming more and more diffuse giving rise to impressive possibilities in the emerging interdisciplinary areas. In food science and nutrition, this trend has given rise to the development of new methodologies in which advanced analytical methodologies are applied to investigate topics considered unapproachable few years ago. As a result, researchers in food science and nutrition are being pushed to move from classical methodologies to more advanced strategies usually borrowing methods well established in medical, pharmacological and/or biotechnology research. In this context, we have recently defined for the first time in a SCI journal the new field of Foodomics (A. Cifuentes, J. Chromatogr. A, 1216 (2009) 7109) as a discipline that studies the food and nutrition domains through the application of modern omics technologies. Thus, Foodomics would cover e.g., the development of new transgenic foods using molecular tools, the genomic/transcriptomic/proteomic and/or metabolomic study of foods used for compounds profiling/authenticity and/or biomarkers detection, new investigations on food functions including functional foods and/or functional ingredients through in vivo assays and/or clinical trials, etc. Consequently, Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics approaches can be considered as subdisciplines of the more general Foodomics field. In this work, we will show the development of advanced analytical methodologies carried out by our group and their application to solve different problems in the new Foodomics field.

Resumen del póster presentado al 28th International Symposium on Chromatography celebrado en Valencia (España) del 12 al 16 de septiembre de 2010.

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