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"The VIB Metabolomics Core Facility offers an excellent, user-friendly platform that allows even not-experienced users to easily generate high-quality, publishable data output."
Prof. Igor Cesarino
University of São Paulo, Institute of Biosciences
"The versatile tools, expertise and commitment of the VIB Metabolomics core guarantees that our research can keep on exploring the frontiers of plant specialized metabolism."
Prof. Alain Goossens
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
"I was very satisfied with the high-quality service of the metabolomics core. Their scientific experts willingly provided me scientific- and operational support whenever needed, making the whole process go very fluently."
Klaas Witvrouw
PhD student, VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
About the Core
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.