Abstract: Metabolomics is a new study， which use chromatography, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance（NMR）, capillary electrophoresis（CE） techniques on the cells, organs and other body fluids and metabolites in samples were isolated, purified and testing, re-use bioinformatics tools on the obtained data are analyzed to obtain one or a set of biomarker information.Based on analysis of the literatures in recent years, metabolomics was summarized from history, concept, advantage, methods, application, difficulties and challenges, journals and books, websites, and its application in forensic medicine was forecasted. As a new branch of global system biology, metabonomics developed rapidly, and its perspective on forensic medicine was feasible and very optimistic.

Key words: forensic toxicology, metabonomics, review[publication type]