Metabolites are chemically heterogeneous and difficult to quantify in easily read formats. Recently, Tan and Fraser demonstrated that metabolites can be readily quantified by pairing aptamer function with DNA sequencing. This reflects a larger trend of sequencing for assessing biomolecule abundances, further leading to sequencing being a universal analytical tool.
Keywords: DNA sequencing; aptamers; high-throughput metabolomics.
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