Accelerate metabolomics discoveries from biological insight to translational impact
Metabolomics
Metabolomics research provides a powerful window into biological function, disease mechanisms, and therapeutic response. By measuring small molecule changes across biological systems, researchers can uncover critical insights that advance biomarker discovery, precision medicine, and translational research.
SCIEX helps metabolomics researchers navigate biological complexity with confidence. From targeted quantitation to untargeted discovery and high-throughput screening, our integrated mass spectrometry solutions help achieve deeper metabolome coverage, faster answers, and more confident decision-making.
Advancing metabolomics research
Turning complex metabolic data into meaningful biological understanding
The metabolome is dynamic, diverse, and constantly changing. Understanding these changes can reveal disease progression, therapeutic response, environmental influences, and opportunities to discover new biomarkers.
SCIEX technologies help researchers move faster from metabolite detection to biological insight. With high-performance mass spectrometry, advanced workflows, and powerful data analysis tools, our solutions help accelerate discovery with confidence in every result.
Targeted metabolomics
Quantify known metabolites with confidence
Targeted metabolomics enables researchers to focus on specific metabolites and pathways that drive biological processes and disease states. SCIEX solutions provide the sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility needed to confidently quantify metabolites across complex biological samples. Whether supporting biomarker validation, clinical research, or pathway analysis, our technologies help researchers generate reliable data and actionable insights.
With SCIEX targeted metabolomics workflows, you can:
- Quantify metabolites with exceptional sensitivity and specificity
- Achieve robust, reproducible results across large studies
- Reveal biological pathways with greater confidence
- Characterize metabolites through advanced structural elucidation capabilities
- Generate high-quality data to support translational research and biomarker development
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Bile acid analysis
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Large scale targeted metabolomics assay for quantitative plasma profiling
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Targeted metabolomics in rat urine using Zeno MS/MS
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Quantitative analysis of lipid mediators using the ZenoTOF 7600 system
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Fast scanning quantitative lipidomics analysis using the SCIEX 7500+ system
Discovery and translational metabolomics
Expand metabolite coverage and uncover new biological insights
Untargeted metabolomics helps researchers discover previously unknown metabolites, identify emerging biomarkers, and gain a more comprehensive understanding of biological systems. SCIEX solutions combine advanced acquisition technologies, including SWATH DIA, ZT Scan DIA, and electron-activated dissociation (EAD), with scalable workflows that help transform large datasets into meaningful biological answers.
With SCIEX discovery metabolomics solutions, you can:
- Expand metabolite coverage with highly sensitive analyses
- Accelerate identification and quantitation across complex samples
- Generate reproducible, high-quality datasets at scale
- Compare biological conditions with greater statistical confidence
- Characterize metabolites with enhanced structural information
- Advance translational research from discovery through validation
When biological questions become more complex, SCIEX helps researchers move faster from observation to understanding.
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Untargeted data-dependent acquisition (DDA) metabolomics analysis using the ZenoTOF 7600 system
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Qualitative flexibility combined with quantitative power
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Improved metabolite identification using the ZenoTOF 8600 system to analyze NIST SRM 1950 plasma by DDA analysis
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Dilute‑and‑shoot glucose quantitation using the Echo MS system
High-throughput metabolite screening
Accelerate large-scale studies without compromising data quality
As metabolomics studies continue to grow in scale, researchers need workflows that deliver both speed and confidence. The Echo® MS+ system helps remove bottlenecks across metabolomics workflows, enabling rapid analysis and same-day results for large sample cohorts. Combined with end-to-end workflow solutions, researchers can increase throughput while maintaining high-quality analytical performance.
Benefits include:
- High-throughput metabolite screening
- Rapid quantitative analysis
- Minimal sample consumption
- Automated workflow integration
- Faster progression from data generation to decision-making
Technologies supporting metabolomics workflows - Designed to help you uncover deeper biological insights
Metabolomics research depends on trusted data, analytical flexibility, and technologies that can adapt to evolving scientific questions. SCIEX instruments and software are engineered to help researchers generate confident answers across targeted, untargeted, and high-throughput metabolomics applications.
ZenoTOF 8600 system
Drive deeper metabolome coverage with exceptional sensitivity and confident quantitation.
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SCIEX 7600+ system
Combine speed, specificity, and quantitative certainty for demanding metabolomics workflows.
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ZenoTOF 7600 system
Support discovery-driven research with high-resolution mass spectrometry and advanced fragmentation capabilities.
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SCIEX 7500+ system
Achieve reliable performance and exceptional sensitivity for quantitative metabolomics applications.
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Targeted metabolomics with the QTRAP 6500+ system
Enable highly sensitive targeted metabolomics workflows with integrated quantitative and qualitative analysis.
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ExionLC AE system
Discover reproducibility, reliability and carryover performance to match your quantitative workflows. Experience dependability you can count on from injection to injection and batch after batch.
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High-throughput mass spectrometry with the Echo® MS+ system
Accelerate large-scale screening with ultra-high-throughput mass spectrometry.
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SCIEX OS software
Streamline data acquisition, processing, and analysis across metabolomics workflows.
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Service
Keep your instruments performing at their peak with multiple options for response time, repair coverage and maintenance.
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Thought leaders
Extraordinary science in matabolomics - Researchers advancing the future of human health
Discover how leading scientists are using metabolomics to answer complex biological questions, advance disease research, and accelerate the development of precision medicine approaches. Explore stories, applications, and innovations that demonstrate how deeper biological understanding can drive meaningful impact on human health.
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Meet Thomas Hankemeier
Professor of Analytical BioSciences, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)
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