Discoveries

See the impact of SIRIUS firsthand! This archive showcases exciting discoveries and major breakthroughs made by research groups worldwide using SIRIUS for mass spectrometry-based small molecule identification. Explore how the power of SIRIUS is elevating metabolomics and small molecule data analysis across diverse fields, including drug discovery, human health, diagnostics, food industry, monitoring, microbiomics, environmental toxicology, archeology, and materials science. For an extensive list of publications by independent research groups using the SIRIUS software framework, click here.

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Discoveries

Revealing the Hidden Burden of Offshore Discharges with SIRIUS

Offshore produced water discharges introduce over 240 billion liters of complex chemical mixtures into the marine environment annually. In a case study using produced water from North Sea offshore oil platforms, researchers demonstrated that traditional monitoring significantly underestimates the persistence of discharged chemicals. They introduce a novel analytical framework using advanced non-target analysis and computational workflows, including SIRIUS to highlight a significant “hidden burden” of persistent pollutants.

Franziska Hufsky 2026-03-19 1 Comment