Research Standards

Coverage

Coverage encompasses the biochemical breadth and diversity that you can detect in your samples. To fully understand your biological systems, you must be able to capture not only endogenous metabolites, those produced by the host, but also exogenous metabolites. Why?

Exogenous metabolites are particularly powerful, because they reveal how a system (the human body, for example) reacts to the environment. Exercise, what we eat and drink, the medications we take, everything impacts the human body and can be important indicators of health and disease.

That’s why at Metabolon, we’ve developed our technology to enable you to see and compare thousands of metabolites in a single sample. With such comprehensive coverage, you’ll never miss out on important insights.

Competence

Competency is the ability to generate high-quality data and interpret the biological results. Crucial to this ability is knowledge of the pitfalls that can occur during a metabolomics study so they don’t happen to you.

At Metabolon, we have a thorough understanding of the pitfalls that can plague any study of any size and on any host. Through over 10,000 projects, we’ve gained the competency required to avoid the pitfalls that can make biological insights possible. We generate high-quality data and can help you interpret it so you can maximize the potential insights from your metabolomics studies.

Comparability

Comparability is where the true power of metabolomics lies. The ability to cross-compare hundreds of thousands of metabolomics samples from different researchers, times, geographies, patients, and matrices will drive innovation in human healthcare in ways we can’t yet imagine.

Achieving this level of comparability is not easy—but at Metabolon, we’ve developed the technology required for you to add your metabolomics datasets to an ever-growing bank of metabolomics insights and to draw from those insights to make your studies even more impactful.

Capacity

Capacity—the ability to process hundreds of thousands of samples quickly and cost-effectively—is the answer for researchers tired of waiting “just a little longer” for results to come back from a collaborating lab. With the pace of modern research, anyone left with unpredictable turn around times just can’t keep up.

At Metabolon, our Client Success team manages sample shipping to ensure study success. Predictable turnaround times make sure you know what to expect and when to expect it and make sure you’re never left behind waiting for data.

We can offer you the complete mixture of coverage, competency, comparability, and capacity because of our commitment to quality. We operate using procedures established in our Quality Management System to ensure that our complex deliverables are accurate and consistent. At every stage, we deliver robust quality assurance and quality control with a rigorous data governance program and adherence to valued U.S. federal and international standards and regulations.