As of 2022, the Human Metabolome Database (HMDB Version 5.0) contained 217,920 annotated metabolites, with a further 1,581,537 unannotated derivatized metabolite entries from gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) data (Wishart et al., 2022)
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