{credit}Mark Viant{/credit}
Guest post by Mark Viant, Professor of Metabolomics in the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Director of both the national NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility – Metabolomics and the Phenome Centre Birmingham.
In 2014, my research team published the first Scientific Data Data Descriptor for metabolomics measurements, Direct infusion mass spectrometry metabolomics dataset: a benchmark for data processing and quality control. This article described in great detail the many steps that are critical for ensuring the production of high quality (direct infusion) mass spectrometry (DIMS) data. It was our intention that this publication would help to establish the benchmark for DIMS metabolomics, derived using best-practice workflows and rigorous quality assessment. The data was also made freely available in the MetaboLights public database for metabolomics data (dataset MTBLS79).1