About the Authors

Chunxiu Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunxiu Hu, Heng Wei

Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China, Division of Analytical Biosciences, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Heng Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunxiu Hu, Heng Wei

Affiliations Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine, Zeist, The Netherlands, Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Anita M. van den Hoek

Affiliation Gaubius Laboratory, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands

Mei Wang

Affiliations Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine, Zeist, The Netherlands, SU BioMedicine, Zeist, The Netherlands

Rob van der Heijden

Affiliation Division of Analytical Biosciences, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Gerwin Spijksma

Affiliation Division of Analytical Biosciences, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Theo H. Reijmers

Affiliation Division of Analytical Biosciences, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jildau Bouwman

Affiliations Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands, Netherlands Metabolomics Centre, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Suzan Wopereis

Affiliation Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Louis M. Havekes

Affiliation Gaubius Laboratory, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands

Elwin Verheij

Affiliation Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Thomas Hankemeier

Affiliations Division of Analytical Biosciences, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Netherlands Metabolomics Centre, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Guowang Xu

jan.vandergreef@tno.nl (JvdG); xugw@dicp.ac.cn (GX)

Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China, Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine, Zeist, The Netherlands

Jan van der Greef

jan.vandergreef@tno.nl (JvdG); xugw@dicp.ac.cn (GX)

Affiliations Division of Analytical Biosciences, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine, Zeist, The Netherlands, SU BioMedicine, Zeist, The Netherlands, Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Science, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Authors employed by SUB (MW and JvdG) have a potential conflict of interest as their company may benefit from knowledge of the product investigated, which is generated on the basis of the published data. The authors will however not receive additional salary, additional personal income, or any form of financial support based on this study or the direct outcome. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW JvdG. Performed the experiments: CH AMvdH. Analyzed the data: CH HW AMvdH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS LMH EV TH. Wrote the first draft of the paper: CH HW. Contributed to the writing of the paper: CH HW AvdH MW RvdH THR JB SW LH EV TH GX JvdG.