The Rothamsted Metabolomics Centre (MeT-RO)

Metabolomics is one of several technologies that will contribute to our quest to understand the function of all genes. MeT-RO will build and operate a high-throughput primary and secondary metabolite fingerprinting service for plants and microbes. We will develop and utilise a large-scale analytical chemistry facility generating NMR, GC, GC-MS, HPLC and LC-MS data at Rothamsted. Data will be managed in LIMS system at Rothamsted and transferred electronically to our partners at the University of Aberystwyth and UMIST and used to construct a metabolomics database from which comparative information will be extracted with chemometric, machine learning and other bioinformatic tools. MeT-RO and its partners will act as foci for research training in metabolomic technology while contributing data and interpretation tools towards systematic functional genomics, as well as to many other applications in the food, pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. (Joint with MET20482 and MET20484)