The COS is a scientific-technical installation equipped with the most cutting-edge technologies in metabolomics and proteomics, complemented by technologies of transcriptomics, genomics and validation of biomarkers.

The COS is owned by the Rovira and Virgili University and is managed by the Technological Center for Nutrition and Health, which offers scientific advice and technical support in the application of omics technologies in an integrated way to the new challenges of the life sciences.

The integration in a single installation of multiple technologies in metabolomics and proteomics allows to use the most suitable technologies, or the combination of them, to determine the metabolic profiling. The methodologies of non-targeted metabolomics allow to postulate hypotheses that can be verified and elucidate the biochemical mechanisms involved, through the use of complementary omics technologies such as genomics, transcriptomics or proteomics and validation in vitro, in vivo and in humans.

The COS applies these technologies to improve knowledge and innovative applications in health, animal and human food, and pharmaceutical and environmental industries.