:: Metabolomics Survey Background Dashboard ::

1. Area of Employment

Answer	Responses
Academia	154
Government	16
Other	9
Industry (users of metabolomics technologies)	7
Industry (technology or software provider)	6
Industry (metabolomics service provider)	6
Non-governmental organisation	4

2. What type of work do you do?

Answer	Responses
Combination of biological/chemical laboratory AND data processing/bioinformatics	131
Primarily biological/chemical laboratory	40
Primarily data processing/bioinformatics	25
None of the above	5

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4. Job Position

Answer	Responses
Principal investigator/Group leader	55
PhD student	55
Postdoctoral researcher	33
Staff scientist	26
Other	18
Masters student	7
Technician	5
Undergraduate student	2
Clinician	1

5. Years of Experience

6. In what area(s) of science are you currently applying metabolomics?

Answer	Responses
Analytical chemistry	92
Clinical Science	86
Bioinformatics and computational biology	73
Plant Science	51
Nutritional Science	51
Animal health and model systems	42
Microbiology & Parasitology	41
Drug development and discovery	40
Environmental Science	39
Toxicology	36
Other	21

7. What type(s) of samples do you work with?

Answer	Responses
Mammalian (biofluids and/or tissue)	117
Mammalian (cell based)	81
Microbial	57
Plant	56
Model organism	49
Other animal	37
Other	15
None	3

8. What type of metabolomics experiments are you performing?

Answer	Responses
Untargeted analyses	154
Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS)	142
Targeted analyses	126
Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS)	80
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy	54
Metabolic flux analysis	31
Direct-infusion mass spectrometry (DIMS)	31
Other	14
None	11
Capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry (CE-MS)	7

9. What type of bioinformatics are you currently performing?

Answer	Responses
Data processing	162
Biostatistics and/or chemometrics	155
Using databases	128
Network analysis	62
Using data repositories	39
None	13
Other	3

10. What programming skill(s) and language(s) do you use?