The Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) in Adelaide provides a wide range of metabolomic analyses from global fingerprinting to fully targeted metabolite analysis. AWRI has a platform designed to detect metabolites from several chemical classes and sample matrices.  It is committed to developing and providing analyses on a broad range of biological species, with particular expertise in microbial organisms, volatile secondary metabolites, sensometabolomics and the food and beverage industry.

The AWRI facility offers:

• Metabolomics analysis using LC, GC and high-resolution mass spectrometry in combination with advanced data handling techniques
• Methods development for targeted and non-targeted analysis of volatile and non-volatile metabolites
• Bio-prospecting
• High resolution, accurate mass measurement
• Multivariate data analysis and visualization of results

Applications include:

• Detecting and characterizing perturbation in metabolism
• Discrimination and classification of phenotypes
• Identification of quality markers for plant and animal breeding and food and beverage production
• Identifying unique biomarkers for human health and disease
• Annotation of gene function
• Environmental toxicology and chemical risk assessment