Course: Metabolomics: Understanding Metabolism in the 21st Century

Mass spectrometry is one of the analytical techniques applied in metabolomics. Dr Catherine Winder provides an introduction to mass spectrometry and explains why its a valuable tool to study the …

Experimental design is important in any scientific study. Ideally we would measure one source of variation while controlling all others. However, in metabolomics it is not always possible to control …

The metabolome is very dynamic in nature and samples should be collected, stored and processed appropriately to ensure the sample is representative of the biological sample at the point of …

The high-dimensional and wide data tables that are encountered in metabolomics can be difficult to analyse, but the metabolomics community is now routinely applying many techniques to interrogate these large …

Dr Jasper Engel discusses the data reduction and visualisation techniques that are applied in the analysis of metabolomics data.

Metabolomics experiments produce “big data” datasets, and contain a wealth of information that needs to be inspected. Many of the traditional data analysis approaches are not ideally suited to analyse …

Dr Warwick Dunn answers your questions from Weeks 1 and 2.

Professor Mark Viant introduces the development of standards and data repositories within the metabolomics field and how they are important as we move towards open access science. If you are …

The metabolome is a complex and dynamic system and it is challenging to measure all of the metabolites in the metabolome. The objective of an untargeted metabolomics experiment is to …

Metabolism is in constant flux and the turnover of metabolites is fast compared to the transcriptome and proteome. Samples that are metabolically active such as cells, or tissues contain enzymes …

What is the Phenome Centre Birmingham? Phenome Centre Birmingham is an £8million MRC, University of Birmingham and analytical instrument company funded center to support large-scale metabolic phenotyping in the clinical …

NBAF-B, at the University of Birmingham, is one of the four ‘nodes’ of the NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (www.nbaf.nerc.ac.uk) and provides the UK environmental science community with access to state-of-the-art …

Riccardo Di Guida describes why he decided to study for a PhD at the University of Birmingham and the application and future impact of his research within the clinical sciences.