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An accelerated workflow for untargeted metabolomics using the METLIN database

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Figure 1: Schematic representation of the traditional metabolomic workflow involving six steps and the new METLIN-based workflow with only two steps.
Figure 2: Estimate of the physiological relevance of metabolite coverage in metabolomic databases.

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This work was supported by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (TR1-01219), the US National Institutes of Health (R24 EY017540, P30 MH062261, RC1 HL101034 and P01 DA026146) and the US National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging L30 AG0 038036 (G.J.P.). Financial support was also received from the US Department of Energy (grants FG02-07ER64325 and DE-AC0205CH11231).

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Center for Metabolomics, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

    Ralf Tautenhahn, Kevin Cho, Winnie Uritboonthai, Zhengjiang Zhu & Gary Siuzdak

  2. Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

    Ralf Tautenhahn, Kevin Cho, Winnie Uritboonthai, Zhengjiang Zhu & Gary Siuzdak

  3. Department of Chemistry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Gary J Patti

  4. Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Gary J Patti

  5. Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Gary J Patti

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Tautenhahn, R., Cho, K., Uritboonthai, W. et al. An accelerated workflow for untargeted metabolomics using the METLIN database. Nat Biotechnol 30, 826–828 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2348

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