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The Rothamsted Metabolomics Centre (MeT-RO)

ReferenceMET20483
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor John Draper
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors		 Dr David Broadhurst, Mr Nigel Hardy, Dr Horst Holstein, Professor Ross King, Mr Jem Rowland, Dr Ian Scott
Institution Aberystwyth University
DepartmentInst of Biological, Environ & Rural Sci
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 462,262
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/08/2004
End date 31/07/2008
Duration48 months

Abstract

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)

Summary

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Committee Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research TopicsCrop Science, Microbiology, Plant Science, Technology and Methods Development
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative Initiative in Plant and Microbial Metabolomics (MET) [2003-2005]
Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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