Fee-for-service
The primary goal of the Metabolomics & Lipidomics team is to provide advisory, experimental, and bioinformatics support to research groups conducting metabolomic and lipidomic analyses.
To sustain its activities and upgrade instrumentation, the facility operates on a fee-for-service basis. Fees vary depending on the type of service and the user’s affiliation. The catalog of available services includes sample preparation, bioinformatic data processing, quality assessment, and statistical data analysis. (For more details, please refer to the workflow section.)
We strongly encourage researchers to request funding for metabolomic analyses when preparing grant applications. The platform coordinator is available to assist with the preparation of funding requests.
Guidelines for Scientific Publications
For manuscript preparation, the Metabolomics & Lipidomics team can provide:
1/ A Materials and Methods section relevant to the performed experiments
2/ Supplementary tables with processed data in formats accepted by most journals
3/ Raw data, if required
Acknowledgements
At a minimum, the work performed by the Metabolomics & Lipidomics team should be acknowledged in publications that present or use data generated by the facility. The acknowledgement may be worded as follows or adapted depending on the contributions:
“We thank the Metabolomics and Lipidomics team at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, for metabolomic/lipidomic analysis.”
No specific person names need to be listed, unless desired by the author.
Authorship
We follow the authorship guidelines established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). According to these guidelines, if scientists from the Metabolomics & Lipidomics team have made significant contributions to the design of experiments, conducted non-standard analyses, interpreted data, or any combination of these, they should be considered for co-authorship.
In such cases, the team members should be involved in drafting or critically revising the manuscript and should give final approval of the version to be published. When these conditions are not met, the team should be acknowledged only (see Acknowledgements above).
In cases of uncertainty regarding authorship, investigators are encouraged to clarify expectations with the platform coordinator—ideally before starting the experiments.