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We are the Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics, affiliated with Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry (IRCBC), Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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Research
Metabolites, the chemical entities that are transformed during metabolism, provide a functional readout of cellular biochemistry. With mass spectrometry based metabolomics technique, thousands of metabolites can now be quantitatively measured from minimal amounts of biological material, which…
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Software

MetDNA

Large-scale metabolite annotation is a challenge in liquid chromatogram-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based untargeted metabolomics.

AllCCS

The metabolome includes not just known but also unknown metabolites; however, metabolite annotation remains the bottleneck in untargeted metabolomics. Ion mobility – mass spectrometry (IM-MS) has emerged as a promising technology by providing multi-dimensional characterizations of metabolites
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Publications
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Deep-coverage single-cell metabolomics enabled by ion mobility-resolved mass cytometry

M. Luo, Y. Yin, Z. Zhou, H. Zhang, X. Chen, H. Wang, and Z.-J. Zhu*

Nature Methods, 2026, 23, 585-595.

Quantitative profiling of lipid transport between organelles enabled by subcellular photocatalytic labeling

X. Chen†, R. He†, H. Xiong, R. Wang, Y. Yin, Y. Chen*, and Z.-J. Zhu*

Nature Chemistry, 2025, 17, 1534 - 1545.

Metabolite Annotation from Knowns to Unknowns through Knowledge-guided Multi-layer Metabolic Networking

Z. Zhou†, M. Luo†, H. Zhang, Y. Yin, Y. Cai, and Z.-J. Zhu*

Nature Communications, 2022, 13: 6656.