Bits & Bites # 04: Quality Control and Quality Assurance (mQACC) from sample preparation to reporting
Date & Time: May 8, 2025, from 9 am to 1 pm PT
Instructor: Dr. Oliver Fiehn, UC Davis
Registration & Payment: here
- Required Software: None
- Participant prerequisites: None
- Level: Introductory
- Short description of the course: For several years, an independent consortium of more than 100 metabolomic scientists has discussed and published best practice documents in metabolomics, from sample preparation and data acquisition (LC-MS, GC-MS, and NMR) to data processing and reporting, including for the use of reference materials and quality control samples. In this course, we will review the major conclusions of all mQACC reports and discuss strategies to utilize this information for data and manuscript submissions that require detailed descriptions of methods used in metabolomics studies. We will discuss if best-practice documents are clear enough for implementing strategies into standardized lab workflows, or where the community reports do not clearly distinguish quality differences between different strategies.