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Table 2.9 Integrative databases for Metabolomics and Instrumentation analysis in plants

Database Name Plant Species/Purpose Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

GC/MS Web Site Web site for explanation of

gas chromatography and
mass spectrometry

http://www.scientific.org/tutorials/
articles/gcms.html

Comprehensive Pesticide
Residue Analysis by
LC/MS/MS Using
an Ultra Aqueous
C18 Column/Foods,
Flavor—Restek
Chromatography

Agricultural, food, flavor and
fragrance identity of com-
pounds via LC/MS/MS—a
commercial company site

http://www.restek.com/Technical-
Resources/Technical-Library/
Foods-Flavors-Fragrances/
fff_A020

Lipid Analysis with
GC-MS, LC-MS,
FT-MS—Metabolo-
mics Fiehn Lab

Metabolite (lipid) identity of
compounds via LC/MS/
MS—another commercial
site

http://fiehnlab.ucdavis.edu/
staff/kind/Metabolomics/
LipidAnalysis/

FTIR Analysis Industrial application and

compound identity—FTIR

http://www.semlab.com/ftir.html

FTIR Analysis—Fourier
Transform Infrared
Spectroscopy

Web site explaining FTIR
analysis and identity

http://www.ides.com/articles/test-
ing/2008/FTIR_Analysis.asp

NMR Analysis, Processing
and Prediction

Explanation of NMR analysis http://nmr-analysis.blogspot.com.
au/

NMR Analysis NMR analysis, methodol-

ogy and equipment
requirements

http://www.intertek.com/analysis/
nmr/

Metabolome Analysis
Service by CE-MS

Various applications for
CE-MS in drugs, toxicol-
ogy, disease, blood, cell
and tissue; including pos-
sible use in plants

http://www.infinitebio.com/prod-
ucts/HMT_Metaborolomics_
Analysis/index.html

QMS 403 C Aëo-
los®—Quadrupole
Mass Spectrometer-
NETZSCH

New dimensions and equip-
ment for gas analysis; the
QMS 403; the quadruple
MS instrument

http://www.netzsch-thermal-anal-
ysis.com/en/products/detail/
pid,33.html

Evolved Gas Analysis-
EGA (QMS, TG-
GC-MS, FTIR,
SKIMMER)

Quadruple MS and standard
MS analysis, especially
coupled to FTIR; pulse
thermal analysis

http://www.netzsch-thermal-
analysis.com/en/products/
evolved-gas-analysis/

GEN | Application Notes:
MALDI-TOF MS
Analysis of Nanotrap
Enriched Low Molecu-
lar Weight Protein—
Human Serum example

MALDI-TOF MS; used to
select Biomarkers which
are often masked by high
abundant proteins, and/
or may be susceptible to
proteolysis

http://www.genengnews.
com/application-notes/
maldi-tof-ms-analysis-of-
nanotrap-enriched-low-molec-
ular-weight-proteins-from-
human-serum/22/

NMR Spectroscopy Web site to explain Proton

NMR spectroscopy and
multi uses

http://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/
faculty/reusch/VirtTxtJml/
Spectrpy/nmr/nmr1.htm