The West Coast Metabolomics Center is a cluster center with four research laboratories and a large service core. We provide o ... pportunities for research collaborations but also make general metabolomics services available to academic or industry investigators. We advance the state-of-the art in metabolomics research in specific fields of biology but also in technology areas, specifically in computational metabolomics. The West Coast Metabolomics Center offers fee-based services to biomedical, preclinical and clinical researchers through its Service Core laboratories. Collaborative research is performed through the four metabolomics Research laboratories. The center provides educational courses and workshops to inform biologists and clinicians on the wealth and power of metabolomics for translational science, and offers an annual Pilot Funding program. The center also makes tools and downloads available for researchers. read more