Interfaced with a GC to separate the metabolites, the Agilent 240 ion trap will enable you to conduct metabolomic experiments. The ion trap has unit resolution so its capacity to generate an elemental formula for any unknown will be limited. However, the library ( eg NIST/Wiley) in conjunction with the use of retention indices and deconvolution software (eg AMDIS) should allow you to identify many of the metabolites.
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