Obtaining Standards
Finding the right standard for confirming the identity of a marker can be quite challenging. Here is a list of vendors that offer pure standards related to food metabolome. FoodComEx is a chemical library initiated in FoodBAll to facilitate the sharing of standards for food compounds and their metabolites.
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FoodComEx | FoodComEx is a new chemical library initiated in the FoodBAll project to facilitate the sharing of not easily accessible standards for food compounds and their human metabolites. FoodComEx is a virtual library, with compounds stored in the laboratory where they have been isolated or synthesized. Anyone interested in one compound will directly contact the laboratory offering to share the compound. A reference spectral library for food-derived compounds and their metabolites will be made available from the data shared by users. |
AKos GmbH | AKos GmbH is a chemoinformatics company that distributes over 30 million compounds for chemical and pharmaceutical research & development. The compounds are searchable through the company's AKosSamples database. |
Alfa Chemistry | Alfa Chemistry offers an extensive catalog of building blocks, reagents, catalysts, reference materials, and research chemicals in a wide range of applications. They also provide analytical services and laboratory services to customers. |
ArboNova | ArboNova supplies selected bioactive lignans, stilbenes, and flavonoids for research applications. |
AvaChem | AvaChem Scientific is a scientific service company distributing herbal extracts, laboratory reagents, and equipment for life science research and development use. They have served scientists from universities, research institutions, and companies all over the world for more than ten years. |
Avanti Polar Lipids | Avanti Polar Lipids has a long history of 50 years creating the highest purity lipids available. |
BioNordika | BioNordika has a wide offering of products and services focused in the areas of Cell & Molecular Biology, Immunology & Diagnostics, Instruments & Disposables, and Custom Products & Projects. |
Biosynth | Biosynth is a manufacturer and distributor of reagents and biochemicals for the life science and pharmaceutical industries. It claims to offer the largest indole selection in the world. |
BOC Sciences | BOC Sciences provides a wide variety of custom services which range from bulk compounds to specialty species in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and biotechnology industries. |
Cambridge Isotope Laboratories | Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (CIL) is the world’s leading producer of stable isotopes and stable isotope-labeled compounds. With over 400 employees and laboratories in four countries, CIL specializes in the process of labeling biochemical and organic compounds with highly enriched, stable (nonradioactive) isotopes of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen. |
Carbosynth | Carbosynth offers over 4500 carbohydrates and nucleosides. This range includes monosaccharides, enzyme substrates, D- and L- sugars, oligosaccharides, detergents and nucleosides. The catalogue offers quantities for R&D but many are produced in bulk. |
Cayman Chemical | Cayman Chemical manufactures high quality biochemicals, assay kits, antibodies, and recombinant proteins and offers contract services for custom chemical synthesis/analysis, assay development/screening, and drug discovery. |
Cymit Química | Cymit Química is a marketplace between buyers and sellers in the chemistry sector offering a comprehensive purchase/sale solution for researchers and manufacturers of products aimed at the chemical sector. |
eMolecules | eMolecules is a free chemical structure search engine with millions of public domain structures from vendors worldwide. |
Extrasynthese | For 30 years Extrasynthese had provided highly purified reference phytochemicals. |
Glentham Life Sciences | Glentham Life Sciences is a supplier of fine chemicals, biochemicals and life science products. They offer antibiotics, APIs, buffers, carbohydrates, detergents, and vitamins for diagnostics and research. |
Herboreal Ltd. | Herboreal Ltd. provides high quality rare phytochemicals and derivatives for R&D purposes. |
iChemical | iChemical.com offers a complete spectrum of custom synthesis services, all led by professional project management personnel and project management system. |
INDOFINE Chemical Company | INDOFINE Chemical Company, Inc. provides high quality rare organic molecules, biochemicals, and natural products for the advancement of science. |
InstruChemie | InstruChemie is a well-established company based in the Netherlands, operating primarily in the clinical diagnostics market. They are specialized in the development, production, and marketing of a wide range of products including in vitro diagnostics, quality control materials, biochemicals, small laboratory equipment, and disposables. |
LC Labs | LC Laboratories manufactures laboratory reagents used to study signal transduction processes in cells and tissues in biomedical research. |
MilliporeSigma | MilliporeSigma provides scientists and engineers with the best-in-class lab materials, technologies, and services. They have a broad portfolio of 300,000 products. |
MolPort | MolPort is an advanced chemical marketplace made for research scientists in the chemical community. |
PhytoLab | PhytoLab offers a broad portfolio of over 1,000 extensively documented herbal reference substances. |
Qmx Laboratories | Qmx Laboratories are a leading provider of specialist chemicals and products to the research and quality testing laboratories in the Environmental, Chemical, Life Sciences, Medical, and Academic areas. |
Santa Cruz Biotechnology | Santa Cruz Biotechnology is a world leader in the development of products for the biomedical research market. Over the past twenty years, the company has focused on the ongoing development of research monoclonal antibodies, biochemicals, labware, and CRISPR products. |
Steraloids | Steraloids offers 2700 different androgens, estrogens, cholestins, progestins, bileacids, hormones, and metabolites. |
TCI Europe | TCI is a chemical manufacturer that has supplied high-quality organic reagents for over half a century. |
Toronto Research Chemicals | Toronto Research Chemicals has an inventory of over 36,000 different compounds for immediate shipment, including unique, highly specialized chemicals for drug development, medical, and biochemical research. |
ZINC | ZINC is a free database of commercially-available compounds for virtual screening. ZINC contains over 100 million purchasable compounds in ready-to-dock, 3D formats. |