The COS Metabolomics Facility performs targeted and non-targeted approaches to biological problems including:

• Metabolome profiling or global metabolomics.
• Lipidomics.
• Relative and absolute quantitation of small molecules (targeted metabolomics).

Some of the applications are listed here:

• Relative and absolute quantitation of small molecules: metabolites, vitamins, drugs, antibiotics, pesticides, food contaminants.
• Analysis of complex natural product extracts,
• Structure elucidation of complex pharmaceuticals and their metabolites,
• Accurate-mass data analysis of environmental samples,
• Differential analysis to identify impurities in pharmaceuticals
• Characterization of unknown compounds,
• Forensic and toxicological screening,
• Profile-directed biomarker discovery.
• Detection of pesticides in food matrices
• Analysis of steroidal analogs
• Determination of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMEs)
• Determination of low and trace level polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in food samples
• Detection of phthalates in food
• Determination of chemical contaminants.
• Analysis of PCBs in food and biological samples
• High-throughput pesticides analysis
• PCDD/F screening at the maximum residue level for food safety analysis
• Quantitative dioxins screening at the level of interest in animal feed and food
• Determination of anabolic steroids in human urine
• Determination of organotins in water