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Svante Wold's New Year Editorial 2005 |
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Written by Svante Wold, Umetrics & Umea University
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Another year has passed too quickly, and we now read January 2005 on our calendars. In 2004, good things happened and terrible, happy and sad, as usual. However, chemometrics does well, spreading deeper into biology where the data sets are larger than ever with thousands of variables in, among others, gene arrays, LC-MS profiles, and NIR and IR microscopy.
As we all are proudly aware of, Chemometrics has become indispensable in analytical, environmental, and medicinal chemistry, and growing parts of engineering, and  finds its way even into inorganic and physical chemistry. As an illustration, the new search engine www.scholar.google with the search phrase "chemometrics inorganic" gives about 500 hits, enough reading for a week or so.
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