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Royston Goodacre is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. The primary field of their research is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 118 publications. Their work notably intersects several subfields including Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

Their research concentrates on various topics, among which are:

  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
  • Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications

Goodacre has contributed extensively to academic journals and their frequent publication venues include:

  • Metabolomics
  • The Analyst
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

A selection of recent papers by Royston Goodacre includes:

  • Metabolomics of sebum reveals lipid dysregulation in Parkinson's disease, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Root functional traits explain root exudation rate and composition across a range of grassland species, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Quality assurance and quality control reporting in untargeted metabolic phenotyping: mQACC recommendations for analytical quality management, 2022, Metabolomics
  • Reference materials for MS-based untargeted metabolomics and lipidomics: a review by the metabolomics quality assurance and quality control consortium (mQACC), 2022, Metabolomics
  • Comparing root exudate collection techniques: An improved hybrid method, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Their collaborative work involves frequent co-authors, including:

  • Howbeer Muhamadali
  • Yun Xu
  • Cássio Lima
  • Katherine A. Hollywood
  • Stephen J. Fowler

Best Publications

  • Proposed minimum reporting standards for chemical analysis

    Lloyd W. Sumner;Alexander Amberg;Dave Barrett;Michael H. Beale

  • Present and Future of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

    Judith Langer;Dorleta Jimenez de Aberasturi;Javier Aizpurua;Ramon A. Alvarez-Puebla

  • Procedures for large-scale metabolic profiling of serum and plasma using gas chromatography and liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry

    Warwick B Dunn;David Broadhurst;David Broadhurst;Paul Begley;Eva Zelena

  • Metabolomics by numbers: acquiring and understanding global metabolite data.

    Royston Goodacre;Seetharaman Vaidyanathan;Warwick B. Dunn;George G. Harrigan

  • Systems level studies of mammalian metabolomes: the roles of mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

    Warwick B. Dunn;David I. Broadhurst;Helen J. Atherton;Helen J. Atherton;Royston Goodacre

  • A tutorial review: Metabolomics and partial least squares-discriminant analysis--a marriage of convenience or a shotgun wedding.

    Piotr S. Gromski;Howbeer Muhamadali;David I. Ellis;Yun Xu

  • Guidelines and considerations for the use of system suitability and quality control samples in mass spectrometry assays applied in untargeted clinical metabolomic studies.

    David Broadhurst;Royston Goodacre;Stacey N. Reinke;Stacey N. Reinke;Julia Kuligowski

  • Discrimination of Bacteria Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

    Roger M. Jarvis;Royston Goodacre

  • Metabolic fingerprinting in disease diagnosis: biomedical applications of infrared and Raman spectroscopy.

    David I. Ellis;Royston Goodacre

  • Metabolomics: Current technologies and future trends

    Katherine Hollywood;Daniel R. Brison;Royston Goodacre

  • Mass appeal: metabolite identification in mass spectrometry-focused untargeted metabolomics

    Warwick B Dunn;Alexander Erban;Ralf J M Weber;Darren John Creek;Darren John Creek

  • Proposed minimum reporting standards for data analysis in metabolomics

    Royston Goodacre;David Broadhurst;Age K. Smilde;Bruce S. Kristal

  • Rapid identification of urinary tract infection bacteria using hyperspectral whole-organism fingerprinting and artificial neural networks

    Royston Goodacre;éadaoin M Timmins;Rebecca Burton;Naheed Kaderbhai

  • Metabolic fingerprinting as a diagnostic tool

    David I Ellis;Warwick B Dunn;Julian L Griffin;J William Allwood

  • Fingerprinting food: current technologies for the detection of food adulteration and contamination

    David I. Ellis;Victoria L. Brewster;Warwick B. Dunn;J. William Allwood

  • The role of metabolites and metabolomics in clinically applicable biomarkers of disease

    Mamas Mamas;Mamas Mamas;Warwick B. Dunn;Ludwig Neyses;Ludwig Neyses;Royston Goodacre

  • Characterisation and identification of bacteria using SERS

    Roger M. Jarvis;Royston Goodacre

  • Comparison of five xylan synthesis mutants reveals new insight into the mechanisms of xylan synthesis

    David M. Brown;Florence Goubet;Vicky W. Wong;Royston Goodacre

  • The Metabolomics Standards Initiative

    Susanna Assunta Sansone;Teresa Fan;Royston Goodacre;Julian L. Griffin

  • Rapid and quantitative detection of the microbial spoilage of meat by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and machine learning.

    David Ian Ellis;David Iain Broadhurst;Douglas B. Kell;Jeremy John Rowland

  • Detection of the dipicolinic acid biomarker in Bacillus spores using Curie-point pyrolysis mass spectrometry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

    Royston Goodacre;Beverley Shann;Richard J. Gilbert;Eadaoin M. Timmins

  • Global metabolic profiling of Escherichia coli cultures: An evaluation of methods for quenching and extraction of intracellular metabolites

    Catherine L. Winder;Warwick B. Dunn;Stephanie Schuler;David Broadhurst

  • Genetic algorithms as a method for variable selection in multiple linear regression and partial least squares regression, with applications to pyrolysis mass spectrometry

    David Broadhurst;Royston Goodacre;Alun Jones;Jem J Rowland

  • An introduction to liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry instrumentation applied in plant metabolomic analyses

    J. William Allwood;Royston Goodacre

  • A proposed framework for the description of plant metabolomics experiments and their results

    Helen Ann Jenkins;Nigel William Hardy;Manfred Beckmann;John Draper

  • Metabolic fingerprinting of salt-stressed tomatoes

    Helen Elisabeth Johnson;David Iain Broadhurst;Royston Goodacre;Aileen R. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas B. Kell
Douglas B. Kell University of Liverpool
Warwick B. Dunn
Warwick B. Dunn University of Liverpool
David Broadhurst
David Broadhurst University of Alberta
Duncan Graham
Duncan Graham University of Strathclyde
Julian L. Griffin
Julian L. Griffin University of Aberdeen
Joachim Kopka
Joachim Kopka Max Planck Society
Annick Moing
Annick Moing INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Nicholas J. Turner
Nicholas J. Turner University of Manchester
Perdita E. Barran
Perdita E. Barran University of Manchester
Reza M. Salek
Reza M. Salek International Agency For Research On Cancer

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