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Fig. 5 | Genes & Nutrition

Fig. 5

From: Challenges of molecular nutrition research 6: the nutritional phenotype database to store, share and evaluate nutritional systems biology studies

Fig. 5

The basic elements and workflow of dbNP. The protocols for nutrition intervention studies are captured on metadata level, which are then stored (1) in the study metadata database. All analytical procedures on study samples (2) eventually results in ‘clean data’ (3) which are stored in clean data databases. By interrogating the study metadata database, data subsets of multiple studies can be selected (4), and then analysed by statistical and bioinformatics tools (5)

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