Documenting the chemistry of Life, why and how?
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Introducing the EMI at the Swiss Metabolomics Society meeting in Bern, Switzerland - 2025.
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Documenting the chemistry of Life, why and how? Pierre-Marie Allard - COMMONS Lab https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17310143! Slide contents licensed under!CC-BY-SA 4.0 Feel free to share and/or modify.
To heal ourselvesTo understand Nature
200 years of natural products research < 1% of plant metabolites have been characterized Centuries required to fully document plant metabolites -Physical isolation of a compound can requires monthes of work! -Strong publication bias (new or bioactives only are reported) ~ 350'000 compounds ~ 30'000 species
200 years of natural products research < 1% of plant metabolites have been characterized ~ 350'000 compounds ~ 30'000 species
1 sample - 10 min > 100 samples / day 1 sample 10 min 10'000 spectra 500 annotations
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METABOLOME EARTH INITIATIVE
Profile the metabolic content of all currently known species on Earth. A massive undertaking ... METABOLOME EARTH INITIATIVE ... with three objectives •Explore and understand the chemical foundations of the biosphere •Benefit human society •Protect biodiversity
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User community Researchers, policy makers, industry, national parks, curators, public etc. HO O OH OH OH Project n Project IV Project III Project 1 METABOLOME EARTH KNOWLEDGE BASE BUILDING KNOWLEDGE Accessing chemodiversity Knowledge acquisition Knowledge dissemination Project II Knowledge organisation
User community Researchers, policy makers, industry, national parks, curators, public etc. HO O OH OH OH Project n Project IV Project III Project 1 METABOLOME EARTH KNOWLEDGE BASE BUILDING KNOWLEDGE Accessing chemodiversity Knowledge acquisition Knowledge dissemination Advance life sciences Project II Knowledge organisation
User community Researchers, policy makers, industry, national parks, curators, public etc. HO O OH OH OH Project n Project IV Project III Project 1 METABOLOME EARTH KNOWLEDGE BASE BUILDING KNOWLEDGE Accessing chemodiversity Benefit human society Knowledge acquisition Knowledge dissemination Advance life sciences Project II Knowledge organisation
User community Researchers, policy makers, industry, national parks, curators, public etc. HO O OH OH OH Project n Project IV Project III Project 1 METABOLOME EARTH KNOWLEDGE BASE BUILDING KNOWLEDGE Accessing chemodiversity Protect biodiversity Benefit human society Knowledge acquisition Knowledge dissemination Advance life sciences Project II Knowledge organisation
User community Researchers, policy makers, industry, national parks, curators, public etc. HO O OH OH OH Project n Project IV Project III Project 1 METABOLOME EARTH KNOWLEDGE BASE BUILDING KNOWLEDGE MAKING IMPACT Accessing chemodiversity Protect biodiversity Benefit human society Knowledge acquisition Knowledge dissemination Advance life sciences Project II Knowledge organisation
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Wild ecosystems Botanical gardens Laboratory plants Diversity (species) Sampling (easiness of) Functions (understanding of) Diversity (species) Sampling (easiness of) Functions (understanding of) Diversity (species) Sampling (easiness of) Functions (understanding of) Conditions (control of environmental) Conditions (control of environmental) Conditions (control of environmental)
Wild ecosystems Botanical gardens Laboratory plants Diversity (species) Sampling (easiness of) Functions (understanding of) Diversity (species) Sampling (easiness of) Functions (understanding of) Diversity (species) Sampling (easiness of) Functions (understanding of) Conditions (control of environmental) Conditions (control of environmental) Conditions (control of environmental)
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