A review article highlighting the most important achievements in chemometrics for the years 2008 and 2009 has been published in the journal Analytical Chemistry (Anal.Chem. 2010, 82, 4699-4711). The work of Dr. Ivica Kopriva (LAIR) and Dr. Ivanka Jerić (ZOKB) on the isolation of pure components from a small number of mixtures (Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2009, 44(9) 1378-1388) was selected as one of the important achievements in 2009.