Data Support Platform

The aim of this project is to develop a data support platform (DSP) for metabolomics studies, to support storage of experimental metabolomics data, and their processing. This bioinformatics support platform will provide a means for communication between the partners of the NMC for the exchange of data, software, and tools.

Moreover, it is a means to make software and other tools or protocols developed within the NMC available for the international (metabolomics) community. To provide one portal where these tools can be accessed makes the efforts of the NMC more visible and provides a means for collaboration.

The NMC data support platform (NMC-DSP) contains two major components, a metabolomics data warehouse, and a data processing infrastructure. The data warehouse contains a repository of metabolomics data, facilitating storage of raw and processed metabolomics data and study information, which can be searched and queried.

The data processing infrastructure contains tools that cover the entire metabolomics data processing workflow, including data preprocessing, quality control, statistical analysis, metabolite identification and biological interpretation tools.

The project started January 2008, and will end June 2013.