What do you mean by usemetabo.fr ?
Usemetabo is a free and open website where you find some educational resources such as practical tutorial or video resources to understand how to analyse your metabolomics data.

Who may be interested ?
Anyone who wants to learn how to analyze data from metabolomics analyses by understanding how data processing tools work from raw data to biological interpretation..

Why online course ?
The reasons are obvious: easy availability over the netweb, freedom to access the courses at any time, and flexibility of taking up trainings at a time and place of one’s convenience.

What kind of tools for metabolic data processing ?
On one side, you will find Workflow4Metabolomics known as W4M which is a user-friendly and powerful Galaxy online resource covering from the raw data  preprocessing, through the statistical analysis, and up to the annotation of metabolomics data. And other side, you will have MetExplore an all-in-one online solution composed of interactive tools for metabolic network curation, network exploration and omics data analysis. In the future others resources will be presented on this website.

Which ? membership cost and is it worth it ?
usemetabo is free to use, no passwords, no memberships, no fee. The presented educational resources aimsaim at introducing chemists, biologists or statisticians to all the necessary knowledge for metabolomics data analyses, regarding NMR or MS spectra analysis and interactive tools for metabolic network curation, network exploration and omics data analysis

What are the prerequisites ?
To gain a good usemetabo experience it is needed to know about basic concepts in metabolomics (how data are produced). Basic biochemical and statistical knowledge will help in more easily discover the tools. In any case, contact details are provided if you wish to go further on specific topics.