Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced it is providing the Scottish Metabolomics Facility (Scotmet) with technology to advance the field of metabolomics.
Scotmet is funded by the Scottish Universities Life Science Alliance and is run jointly by the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.
The facility combines mass spectrometry, separations technology and bioinformatics.
Scotmet, which already used Thermo Fisher instruments, will now install four Thermo Scientific mass spectrometers, including an LTQ Orbitrap Velos with ETD and Faims source, a DSQ-II GC/MS and two Exactive LC/MS benchtop instruments.
The mass accuracy and sensitivity of the LTQ Orbitrap Velos, equipped with the multiple fragmentation modes available (CID, HCD, ETD and PQD), will allow researchers to accelerate research.
In addition, for high throughput metabolite screening experiments, the fast polarity switching of the Exactive allows effective data collection in positive and negative modes.
'The addition of the LTQ OT Velos, Exactives and GC/MS capability will expedite existing projects and extend the range of important biological and medical problems with which we can work,' said Dr Dave Watson at the University of Strathclyde.
