New separation technologies for profiling metabolites in biological samples

代谢组学是一个重要的新科学领域，有助于在分子水平上理解生命过程。但人们普遍认为，当前代谢组学技术的一个主要局限性是无法准确识别正在研究的生物提取物中大量检测到的代谢物。这个项目将开发尖端的分离科学方法来解决代谢组学分析中存在的这个问题。通过这样做，它将为澳大利亚生物技术和生物医学研究提供巨大的好处，并在将能力转移到从事旨在阐明生物途径和网络的研究的实验室和研究机构方面发挥重要作用。

Metabolomics is an important new field of science that is contributing to the understanding of life processes at the molecular level. But a widely acknowledged major limitation of current metabolomics technologies is the inability to accurately identify high numbers of detected metabolites in the biological extracts being studied. This project will develop cutting-edge separation science approaches to address this existing problem in metabolomics analysis. In doing so it will provide enormous benefit to Australian biotechnology and biomedical research and play a major role in transferring capabilities to laboratories and research institutes that are involved in research aimed at elucidating biological pathways and networks.