Waters Corporation and PREMIER Biosoft International Announce Collaboration for Advancing Lipidomics Research

Waters Corporation WAT today announced it has entered into a non-exclusive co-marketing and reselling agreement with PREMIER Biosoft International (Palo Alto, CA) to advance lipidomics research. Waters will offer PREMIER Biosoft's SimLipid® informatics platform for sale with Waters® ACQUITY UPLC® and high-resolution, exact mass SYNAPT ® and XEVO® mass spectrometers for lipid analysis. PREMIER Biosoft released its SimLipid software product earlier in 2011. Responding to the challenges set forth by leading lipid researchers, Waters exact mass UPLC/MS systems for lipid analysis combine UltraPerformance LC® and proprietary ion mobility mass spectrometry technology with advanced lipidomics informatics for comprehensive and rigorous lipid characterization from complex biological samples. Ion mobility, found only with Waters SYNAPT mass spectrometers, brings an additional, orthogonal dimension of sample separation to lipid analysis. This technology provides greater levels of specificity and class separation to lipid analysis, including the separation of isobaric/isomeric lipid species. "Waters UPLC, ion mobility, advanced mass spectrometry and informatics technologies have created a lipid analysis platform which provides greater insight into our complex biological investigations than ever before," says Professor Jeremy K. Nicholson, Head of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, a Waters Center of Innovation. Waters Centers of Innovation Program recognizes and supports the research of leading scientists and institutions around the world in numerous application areas including metabolomics and lipidomics.