What's on your plate - nutrition, dark matter and health

Graham Lawton at New Scientist magazine has written a nice feature on the hidden elements of human nutrition. There is so much that we do not know about the effects of thousands of molecular compounds present in the foods we eat. He explores that topic fairly well in his article.

That article mentions some software - PhyteByte - colleagues and I designed and published in BMC Bioinformatics. The software is designed to identify food compounds with potential to have pharmacological properties. I'll share details on how all that came to be in another post. As that article was wending its way through the finals stages of editorial review, I was asked to contribute a blog to accompany the PhyteByte article. You can find what I wrote on the “dark matter” of nutrition – just what are you eating here.