LECO carries out research in many fields of analytical chemistry including protein measurement in foods, sulfur in coal emissions, glow discharge emission in metals, multi-dimensional gas chromatograph mass spectrometry, environmental monitoring, air quality, Metabolomics, and diverse medical and pharmaceutical applications.
Neurodegenerative diseases, especially Parkinson's disease, metabolomics and disease network analysis are a primary focus.
T3DB is part of a suite of metabolomics databases that also includes HMDB, DrugBank, and The Small Molecule Pathway Database (SMPDB).