Metabolomics holds great potential to link the observed differences in the phenotype to the underlying biochemical and molecular mechanisms.

The site in Ghent is embedded in the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology and specializes in secondary metabolism. By constructing a unique in house library with over 5000 secondary metabolites, the team developed a high throughput pipeline for comparative (untargeted) metabolic profiling. The introduction of Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry and the use of advanced data processing software (including basic statistics) ensures a straightforward and high quality data output. Additional characterization through compound purification and NMR analysis are also available, but optional.