Metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics are robust tools to analyze food. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) combined with bioinformatic approaches are revolutionizing food Science. In this context we can use NGS to identify the authenticity and microbiome of food, research virulence or resistance genes, and target genes for vaccines. This tool give us fast results which was not possible with traditional methods. It is now possible to identify complete microbial populations using transcriptome, and phylogenetic studies. Several studies show the importance of omics approaches on the food quality, providing results on the microbial communities along the food chain and their implications for human and animal health.
Food quality and food safety are essential to provide safe food around the world as well as to improve food security. Many factors such as foodborne pathogens, food adulteration, chemicals contaminants, and others affect food quality and food safety. The omics approaches are able to analyze the most of these issues in food, offering us answers that cannot be obtained via traditional methods.
This Research Topic aims to provide insights into the application of Omics-based technologies in Food Science and welcomes authors to submit articles on following sub-topics.
• Omics approaches for food authenticity
• Proteomics and Metabolomics in food
• NGS and antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
• NGS and food outbreaks
• NGS and virulence genes
• Metagenomics applied for food
• NGS applied in animal science
• NGS applied in food science
• Bioinformatics for microbiologists
Metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics are robust tools to analyze food. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) combined with bioinformatic approaches are revolutionizing food Science. In this context we can use NGS to identify the authenticity and microbiome of food, research virulence or resistance genes, and target genes for vaccines. This tool give us fast results which was not possible with traditional methods. It is now possible to identify complete microbial populations using transcriptome, and phylogenetic studies. Several studies show the importance of omics approaches on the food quality, providing results on the microbial communities along the food chain and their implications for human and animal health.
Food quality and food safety are essential to provide safe food around the world as well as to improve food security. Many factors such as foodborne pathogens, food adulteration, chemicals contaminants, and others affect food quality and food safety. The omics approaches are able to analyze the most of these issues in food, offering us answers that cannot be obtained via traditional methods.
This Research Topic aims to provide insights into the application of Omics-based technologies in Food Science and welcomes authors to submit articles on following sub-topics.
• Omics approaches for food authenticity
• Proteomics and Metabolomics in food
• NGS and antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
• NGS and food outbreaks
• NGS and virulence genes
• Metagenomics applied for food
• NGS applied in animal science
• NGS applied in food science
• Bioinformatics for microbiologists