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Editorial Announcement

Editor, The Journal of Nutrition

A recent report of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences (ASNS) Long Range Planning Committee (1 ) has highlighted the opportunities and challenges facing nutritional scientists as the current revolution in biology continues to open new areas of research. This report pointed out the opportunities that the human genome project presents in obtaining a clearer understanding of the role of nutrients in the promotion of health and the prevention of disease and the need for The Journal of Nutrition to respond to these new research areas. A second report, a response of the ASNS to a National Research Council invitation to comment on the future direction of nutritional research (2 ), more specifically outlined some of these emerging areas and targeted biomarkers for nutritional status, the nutritional implications of single nucleotide polymorphisms and the development of genomic array databases as fruitful areas of investigation.

The Journal of Nutrition has responded to the changing focus of nutritional research by actively seeking manuscripts in newer areas of nutritional research and expanding the expertise on our Editorial Board. The ASNS has a diverse membership, and it has been the policy of The Journal of Nutrition to continue to publish research articles spanning the wide range of interests of our membership as we expand our coverage of new research directions that present enhanced opportunities for breakthroughs in our understanding of nutritional problems. One of these research areas which truly represents the integrative nature of nutritional science is the emerging field of metabolomics, the study of entire metabolite complements in cells, tissues or fluids. The following article in this issue is a report of an ad hoc group summarizing the opportunities that the field of metabolomics presents and inviting researchers in this field to use our Journal as an outlet for their research efforts. Research in this area is of paramount importance to our science, and the editorial group of The Journal of Nutrition will support this effort by announcing upcoming meetings, inviting reviews, actively soliciting research reports and expanding the expertise of our Editorial Board to meet this challenge.

Respectfully submitted,

J.W. Suttie

Editor

The Journal of Nutrition

7/26/02

LITERATURE CITED

1. Zeisel, S. H., Allen, L. H., Coburn, S. P., Erdman, J. W., Failla, M. L., Freake, H. C., King, J. C. & Storch, J. (2001) Nutrition: a reservoir for integrative science. J. Nutr. 131:1319-1321.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

2. Sunde, R. A. (2001) Research need for human nutrition in the post— genome-sequencing era. J. Nutr. 131:3319-3323.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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