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• Metabolic phenotyping services
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Biocrates - the gold standard in targeted metabolomics

Metabolomics is a powerful tool to answer the multidimensional questions of biology. Biocrates quantitative metabolomics kits is the reliable tool for accurate and precise measurement of specific metabolites in biological samples.
With a wide range of available analytes and the availability of different assays to fit your research needs the kits are perfect for studies in metabolomics, pharmacokinetics, and disease biomarker discovery. The kits utilise state-of-the-art mass spectrometry-based technology and comes with detailed instructions, as well as technical support from our expert team. Get the data you need to advance your research with quantitative metabolomics.

Kit Technology

Full metabolite list

Application Areas

Microbiome Metabolomics explains microbiome host interactions on a functional level		Neurology Metabolomics elucidates the functional attributes of the brain, neurodegenerative disease, and the gut-brain axis
Nutrition & wellbeing Metabolomics is a key technology that confirms how food intake and eating habits influence our wellbeing and health		Infectious disease Metabolomics enables scientists to understand the risks of infectious diseases and help make informed decisions for treatment
More applications The highlighted applications above are a few examples of the many research areas that use targeted metabolomics to better understand diseases. Contact us to find out how metabolomics can be applied to your research.

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Metabolomics Kit Products

Instrument compatibility

Short-chain fatty acid PLUS (SCFA+) assay

Comprehensive coverage Highest coverage of short-, branched-, and medium-chain fatty acids in a single assay Quantitative assay to enable calculation of relevant metabolite sums and ratios		Clinical applications The role of diet in inflammation, energy metabolism, insulin resistance/T2D, autoimmune diseases The link to gut microbiota metabolism and gut-brain axis as well as gut-immune axis
Reliable and reproducible Results can be combined with other Biocrates kit or assay results for maximal insights Data is absolute and quantitative enabling biomarkers and therapeutic target studies		Understand the implications Support in data interpretation possible Tools to translate metabolomics into knowledge

Covered Metabolites in the SCFA+ Assay

• Acetic acid (FA 2:0)
• Propionic acid (FA 3:0)
• Isobutyric acid (FA 3:0-2M)
• Butyric acid (FA 4:0)
• 2-Methylbutyric acid (FA 4:0-2M)
• Isovaleric acid (FA 4:0-3M)
• Valeric acid (FA 5:0)
• 2-Methylvaleric acid (FA 5:0-2M)
• 3-Methylvaleric acid (FA 5:0-3M)
• Isocaproic acid (FA 5:0-4M)
• Caproic acid (FA 6:0)
• 4-Methylhexanoic acid (FA 6:0-4M)
• 5-Methylhexanoic acid (FA 6:0-5M)
• Heptanoic acid (FA 7:0)
• Caprylic acid (FA 8:0)
• Nonanoic acid (FA 9:0)
• Capric acid (FA 10:0)
• Undecanoic acid (FA 11:0)
• Lauric acid (FA 12:0)

Application note

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Comprehensive coverage kits

• Highest coverage of short-, branched-, and medium-chain fatty acids in a single assay
• Quantitative assay to enable calculation of relevant metabolite sums and ratios

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Targeted Profiling Kits

MxP^® Quant 500

• Metabolite coverage: Small molecules and lipids
• Coverage of up to 630 metabolites from 26 biochemical classes
• Includes substances related to nutrition and host-microbiome interaction

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MxP^® Quant 500 XL

• Coverage of up to 1,019 metabolites from 39 biochemical classes
• Provides a profound functional understanding of lipid and metabolite homeostasis

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AbsoluteIDQ^® p180

• The gold standard in targeted metabolomics for all fields of research
• A simple and high-throughput tool for basic, clinical, and epidemiological research
• Provides scientists with highly reproducible metabolomics data
• The successful application of the kit is demonstrated in hundreds of published articles making it the most frequently chosen metabolomics approach of its kind.

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AbsoluteIDQ^® p400 HR

• The high performance, high resolution tool for targeted metabolomics profiling.
• The first ready-to-use, standardised solution for broad lipid and metabolic profiling on Q Exactive™ mass spectrometers
• Provides quantification of more than 400 metabolites and lipids from 11 compound classes covering central metabolic pathways.

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MxP^® Quant HR Xpress™

• The fastest solution for high resolution in targeted profiling
• Standardised solution for broad lipid and metabolic profiling on Q Exactive™ mass spectrometers
• Quantification of more than 360 metabolites and lipids from 11 compound classes covering central metabolic pathways.

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Pathway Specific Kits

AbsoluteIDQ^® Stero17

• The weightlifter for targeted steroid hormone screening
• Provides a ready-to-use, standardised solution for the quantitation of 17 steroid hormones from all five major classes.

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AbsoluteIDQ^® Bile acids kit

• The benchmark solution to assess host-microbiota interaction
• The first ready-to-use, standardized solution for the quantitation of 20 bile acids by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS).

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Metabolic phenotyping services

Metabolomics is the omics technology dealing with the detection, identification, and quantification of metabolites. The obtained results most closely reflect the phenotype of a biological system and are therefore increasingly acknowledged in research.

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Software

Quantitative metabolomics database

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