Table 1.

Characteristics of the Global Chinmedomics Method

Biofluids: Plasma, serum, urine, saliva, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, semen, and tissue homogenates

Experimental technology: GC, HPLC, UPLC, MS, and NMR spectroscopy

Multivariate data analysis: Unsupervised PCA, supervised PLS

Metabolites: Biochemical reaction products or intermediates

Application: Natural product discovery, gene functions, disease studies, toxicology, and nutrition

GC, gas chromatography; HPLC, high-performance liquid chromatography; UPLC, ultra-performance liquid chromatography; MS, mass spectrometry; NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance.