About
Meet the Founder
Two decades of building software that powers scientific discovery — now available for your next project.
Gert Wohlgemuth
Founder & Principal Consultant
Senior Software Developer & Architect · UC Davis Fiehn Lab / West Coast Metabolomics Center
Over 20 years of experience in scientific software development, metabolomics research infrastructure, and data analytics. As Team Leader and Lead Programmer at the UC Davis Fiehn Lab, I designed and built core platforms used by researchers worldwide — including BinBase, the Chemical Translation Service, SPLASH (a universal mass spectral identifier published in Nature Biotechnology), and MassBank of North America (MoNA). My work spans the full stack from high-throughput data pipelines processing 156,000+ GC-TOF MS samples to web applications, SaaS products, and cloud infrastructure. Native German speaker, fluent in English.
At a Glance
- Experience
- 20+ years
- Publications
- 42 peer-reviewed papers
- Samples Processed
- 156,000+ GC-TOF MS
- Languages
- German (native), English (fluent)
- Based in
- Davis, California
Notable Projects
Database
BinBase / BinDiscover
Mass spectral database and biology-focused meta-analysis tool for 156,000+ GC-TOF MS metabolome samples.
Standard
SPLASH
Universal hashed identifier for mass spectra, published in Nature Biotechnology. Adopted across major repositories worldwide.
Web Tool
Chemical Translation Service
Web-based tool for converting chemical identifiers between naming conventions, improving metabolomics data standardization.
Repository
MassBank of North America
Community-driven mass spectra repository and curation system for metabolomics and lipidomics research.
SaaS Product
Cut List Generator
AI-powered cut list optimization platform for cabinet manufacturers. Minimizes waste, multi-language, cloud-based.
Open Source
60+ GitHub Repositories
Active contributor across metabolomics tools, scientific computing, crypto automation, and 3D printing designs.
Publications
View on Google Scholar →Unfolding the Mystery of Autoimmunity: The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) Study
M. Rewers, D. Agardh, S. Bennett Johnson, E. Bonifacio, H. Elding Larsson, P. Gesualdo, W. Hagopian, M.J. Haller, H. Hyoty, R. Johnson, R. McIndoe, E. McKinney, J. Melin, A. Lernmark, R.E. Lloyd, K.F. Lynch, J.M. Norris, S.S. Rich, R. Roth, D. Schatz, J. Toppari, E. Triplett, K. Vehik, S.M. Virtanen, A.G. Ziegler, B. Akolkar, J.P. Krischer, TEDDY Study Group
Diabetes Care (2025) · DOI
The BinDiscover database: a biology-focused meta-analysis tool for 156,000 GC-TOF MS metabolome samples
P.L. Bremer, G. Wohlgemuth, O. Fiehn
Journal of Cheminformatics (2023) · DOI
Denoising Autoencoder Normalization for Large-Scale Untargeted Metabolomics by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
Y. Zhang, S. Fan, G. Wohlgemuth, O. Fiehn
Metabolites (2023) · DOI
Longitudinal Plasma Lipidome and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in a Large Sample of American Indians With Normal Fasting Glucose: The Strong Heart Family Study
G. Miao, Y. Zhang, Z. Huo, W. Zeng, J. Zhu, J.G. Umans, G. Wohlgemuth, D. Pedrosa, B. DeFelice, S.A. Cole, A.M. Fretts, E.T. Lee, B.V. Howard, O. Fiehn, J. Zhao
Diabetes Care (2021) · DOI
Longitudinal Metabolome-Wide Signals Prior to the Appearance of a First Islet Autoantibody in Children Participating in the TEDDY Study
Q. Li, H. Parikh, M.D. Butterworth, A. Lernmark, W. Hagopian, M. Rewers, J.X. She, J. Toppari, A.G. Ziegler, B. Akolkar, O. Fiehn, S. Fan, J.P. Krischer, TEDDY Study Group
Diabetes (2020) · DOI
Effects of Centella asiatica extract on antioxidant status and liver metabolome of rotenone-treated rats using GC-MS
T. Intararuchikul, N. Teerapattarakan, R. Rodsiri, M. Tantisira, G. Wohlgemuth, O. Fiehn, R. Tansawat
Biomedical Chromatography (2019) · DOI
A Comprehensive Plasma Metabolomics Dataset for a Cohort of Mouse Knockouts within the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium
D.K. Barupal, Y. Zhang, T. Shen, S. Fan, B.S. Roberts, P. Fitzgerald, B. Wancewicz, L. Valdiviez, G. Wohlgemuth, G. Byram, Y.Y. Choy, B. Haffner, M.R. Showalter, A. Vaniya, C.S. Bloszies, J.S. Folz, T. Kind, A.M. Flenniken, C. McKerlie, L.M.J. Nutter, K.C. Lloyd, O. Fiehn
Metabolites (2019) · DOI
Metabolite-related dietary patterns and the development of islet autoimmunity
R.K. Johnson, L. Vanderlinden, B.C. DeFelice, K. Kechris, U. Uusitalo, O. Fiehn, M. Sontag, T. Crume, A. Beyerlein, A. Lernmark, J. Toppari, A.G. Ziegler, J.X. She, W. Hagopian, M. Rewers, B. Akolkar, J. Krischer, S.M. Virtanen, J.M. Norris, TEDDY Study Group
Scientific Reports (2019) · DOI
Identifying metabolites by integrating metabolome databases with mass spectrometry cheminformatics
Z. Lai, H. Tsugawa, G. Wohlgemuth, S. Mehta, M. Mueller, Y. Zheng, A. Ogiwara, J. Meissen, M. Showalter, K. Takeuchi, T. Kind, P. Beal, M. Arita, O. Fiehn
Nature Methods (2018) · DOI
Identification of small molecules using accurate mass MS/MS search
T. Kind, H. Tsugawa, T. Cajka, Y. Ma, Z. Lai, S.S. Mehta, G. Wohlgemuth, D.K. Barupal, M.R. Showalter, M. Arita, O. Fiehn
Mass Spectrometry Reviews (2018) · DOI
The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) Study: 2018 Update
M. Rewers, H. Hyoty, A. Lernmark, W. Hagopian, J.X. She, D. Schatz, A.G. Ziegler, J. Toppari, B. Akolkar, J. Krischer, TEDDY Study Group
Current Diabetes Reports (2018) · DOI
SPLASH, a hashed identifier for mass spectra
G. Wohlgemuth, S.S. Mehta, R.F. Mejia, S. Neumann, D. Pedrosa, T. Pluskal, E.L. Schymanski, E.L. Willighagen, M. Wilson, D.S. Wishart, M. Arita, P.C. Dorrestein, N. Bandeira, M. Wang, T. Schulze, R.M. Salek, C. Steinbeck, V.C. Nainala, R. Mistrik, T. Nishioka, O. Fiehn
Nature Biotechnology (2016) · DOI
Participant Experiences in the Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young Study: Common Reasons for Withdrawing
B. Lernmark, K. Lynch, J. Baxter, R. Roth, T. Simell, L. Smith, U. Swartling, S.B. Johnson, TEDDY Study Group
Journal of Diabetes Research (2016) · DOI
Association of Early Exposure of Probiotics and Islet Autoimmunity in the TEDDY Study
U. Uusitalo, X. Liu, J. Yang, C.A. Aronsson, S. Hummel, M. Butterworth, A. Lernmark, M. Rewers, W. Hagopian, J.X. She, O. Simell, J. Toppari, A.G. Ziegler, B. Akolkar, J. Krischer, J.M. Norris, S.M. Virtanen, TEDDY Study Group
JAMA Pediatrics (2016) · DOI
Systemic Metabolomic Changes in Blood Samples of Lung Cancer Patients Identified by Gas Chromatography Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
S. Miyamoto, S.L. Taylor, D.K. Barupal, A. Taguchi, G. Wohlgemuth, W.R. Wikoff, K.Y. Yoneda, D.R. Gandara, S.M. Hanash, K. Kim, O. Fiehn
Metabolites (2015) · DOI
A method for reporting and classifying acute infectious diseases in a prospective study of young children: TEDDY
M. Lonnrot, K. Lynch, H.E. Larsson, A. Lernmark, M. Rewers, W. Hagopian, J.X. She, O. Simell, A.G. Ziegler, B. Akolkar, J. Krischer, H. Hyoty, TEDDY Study Group
BMC Pediatrics (2015) · DOI
Early childhood gut microbiomes show strong geographic differences among subjects at high risk for type 1 diabetes
K.M. Kemppainen, A.N. Ardissone, A.G. Davis-Richardson, J.R. Fagen, K.A. Gano, L.G. Leon-Novelo, K. Vehik, G. Casella, O. Simell, A.G. Ziegler, M.J. Rewers, A. Lernmark, W. Hagopian, J.X. She, J.P. Krischer, B. Akolkar, D.A. Schatz, M.A. Atkinson, E.W. Triplett, TEDDY Study Group
Diabetes Care (2015) · DOI
Predictors of Progression From the Appearance of Islet Autoantibodies to Early Childhood Diabetes: The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY)
A.K. Steck, K. Vehik, E. Bonifacio, A. Lernmark, A.G. Ziegler, W.A. Hagopian, J. She, O. Simell, B. Akolkar, J. Krischer, D. Schatz, M.J. Rewers, TEDDY Study Group
Diabetes Care (2015) · DOI
Role of Type 1 Diabetes-Associated SNPs on Risk of Autoantibody Positivity in the TEDDY Study
C. Torn, D. Hadley, H.S. Lee, W. Hagopian, A. Lernmark, O. Simell, M. Rewers, A. Ziegler, D. Schatz, B. Akolkar, S. Onengut-Gumuscu, W.M. Chen, J. Toppari, J. Mykkanen, J. Ilonen, S.S. Rich, J.X. She, A.K. Steck, J. Krischer, TEDDY Study Group
Diabetes (2015) · DOI
Risk of pediatric celiac disease according to HLA haplotype and country
E. Liu, H.S. Lee, C.A. Aronsson, W.A. Hagopian, S. Koletzko, M.J. Rewers, G.S. Eisenbarth, P.J. Bingley, E. Bonifacio, V. Simell, D. Agardh, TEDDY Study Group
New England Journal of Medicine (2014) · DOI
Children followed in the TEDDY study are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at an early stage of disease
H. Elding Larsson, K. Vehik, P. Gesualdo, B. Akolkar, W. Hagopian, J. Krischer, A. Lernmark, M. Rewers, O. Simell, J.X. She, A. Ziegler, M.J. Haller, TEDDY Study Group
Pediatric Diabetes (2014) · DOI
Prevalence of obesity was related to HLA-DQ in 2-to-4-year-old children at genetic risk for type 1 diabetes
J. Yang, A. Lernmark, U.M. Uusitalo, K.F. Lynch, R. Veijola, C. Winkler, H.E. Larsson, M. Rewers, J.X. She, A.G. Ziegler, O.G. Simell, W.A. Hagopian, B. Akolkar, J.P. Krischer, K. Vehik, TEDDY Study Group
International Journal of Obesity (2014) · DOI
Iron-dependent modifications of the flower transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, and hormonal content in an Arabidopsis ferritin mutant
D. Sudre, E. Gutierrez-Carbonell, G. Lattanzio, R. Rellan-Alvarez, F. Gaymard, G. Wohlgemuth, O. Fiehn, A. Alvarez-Fernandez, A.M. Zamarreno, E. Bacaicoa, D. Duy, J.M. Garcia-Mina, J. Abadia, K. Philippar, A.F. Lopez-Millan, J.F. Briat
Journal of Experimental Botany (2013) · DOI
Sample preparation for metabolomics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
S. Kim, D.Y. Lee, G. Wohlgemuth, H.S. Park, O. Fiehn, K.H. Kim
Analytical Chemistry (2013) · DOI
Metabolomics as a Hypothesis-Generating Functional Genomics Tool for the Annotation of Arabidopsis thaliana Genes of "Unknown Function"
S.M. Quanbeck, L. Brachova, A.A. Campbell, X. Guan, A. Perera, K. He, S.Y. Rhee, P. Bais, J.A. Dickerson, P. Dixon, G. Wohlgemuth, O. Fiehn, L. Barkan, I. Lange, B.M. Lange, I. Lee, D. Cortes, C. Salazar, J. Shuman, V. Shulaev, D.V. Huhman, L.W. Sumner, M.R. Roth, R. Welti, H. Ilarslan, E.S. Wurtele, B.J. Nikolau
Frontiers in Plant Science (2012) · DOI
Remodeling of central metabolism in invasive breast cancer compared to normal breast tissue -- a GC-TOFMS based metabolomics study
J. Budczies, C. Denkert, B.M. Mueller, S.F. Brockmoeller, F. Klauschen, B. Gyorffy, M. Dietel, C. Richter-Ehrenstein, U. Marten, R.M. Salek, J.L. Griffin, M. Hilvo, M. Oresic, G. Wohlgemuth, O. Fiehn
BMC Genomics (2012) · DOI
MetaMapp: mapping and visualizing metabolomic data by integrating information from biochemical pathways and chemical and mass spectral similarity
D.K. Barupal, P.K. Haldiya, G. Wohlgemuth, T. Kind, S.L. Kothari, K.E. Pinkerton, O. Fiehn
BMC Bioinformatics (2012) · DOI
BinBase mass spectral database for compound identification in untargeted metabolomics
K. Skogerson, G. Wohlgemuth, D.K. Barupal, O. Fiehn
BMC Bioinformatics (2011) · DOI
Metabolite profile changes in xylem sap and leaf extracts of strategy I plants in response to iron deficiency and resupply
R. Rellan-Alvarez, H. El-Jendoubi, G. Wohlgemuth, A. Abadia, O. Fiehn, J. Abadia, A. Alvarez-Fernandez
Frontiers in Plant Science (2011) · DOI
Global metabolite profiling of agarose degradation by Saccharophagus degradans 2-40
M.H. Shin, D.Y. Lee, G. Wohlgemuth, I.G. Choi, O. Fiehn, K.H. Kim
New Biotechnology (2010) · DOI
Global metabolic profiling of plant cell wall polysaccharide degradation by Saccharophagus degradans
M.H. Shin, D.Y. Lee, K. Skogerson, G. Wohlgemuth, I.G. Choi, O. Fiehn, K.H. Kim
Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2010) · DOI
The Chemical Translation Service -- a web-based tool to improve standardization of metabolomic reports
G. Wohlgemuth, P.K. Haldiya, E. Willighagen, T. Kind, O. Fiehn
Bioinformatics (2010) · DOI
Long-chain fatty acid combustion rate is associated with unique metabolite profiles in skeletal muscle mitochondria
E.L. Seifert, O. Fiehn, V. Bezaire, D.R. Bickel, G. Wohlgemuth, S.H. Adams, M.E. Harper
PLoS ONE (2010) · DOI
Changes in the proteomic and metabolic profiles of Beta vulgaris root tips in response to iron deficiency and resupply
R. Rellan-Alvarez, S. Andaluz, J. Rodriguez-Celma, G. Wohlgemuth, G. Zocchi, A. Alvarez-Fernandez, O. Fiehn, A.F. Lopez-Millan, J. Abadia
BMC Plant Biology (2010) · DOI
Analysis of early host responses for asymptomatic disease detection and management of specialty crops
A.M. Dandekar, F. Martinelli, C.E. Davis, A. Bhushan, W. Zhao, O. Fiehn, K. Skogerson, G. Wohlgemuth, R. D'Souza, S. Roy, R.L. Reagan, D. Lin, R. Cary, P. Pardington, G. Gupta
Critical Reviews in Immunology (2010) · DOI
PlantMetabolomics.org: a web portal for plant metabolomics experiments
P. Bais, S.M. Moon, K. He, R. Leitao, K. Dreher, T. Walk, Y. Sucaet, L. Barkan, G. Wohlgemuth, M.R. Roth, E.S. Wurtele, P. Dixon, O. Fiehn, B.M. Lange, V. Shulaev, L.W. Sumner, R. Welti, B.J. Nikolau, S.Y. Rhee, J.A. Dickerson
Plant Physiology (2010) · DOI
Metabolomic and transcriptomic analysis of the rice response to the bacterial blight pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
T.R. Sana, S. Fischer, G. Wohlgemuth, A. Katrekar, K.H. Jung, P.C. Ronald, O. Fiehn
Metabolomics (2010) · DOI
FiehnLib: mass spectral and retention index libraries for metabolomics based on quadrupole and time-of-flight gas chromatography/mass spectrometry
T. Kind, G. Wohlgemuth, D.Y. Lee, Y. Lu, M. Palazoglu, S. Shahbaz, O. Fiehn
Analytical Chemistry (2009) · DOI
Comparison of gas chromatography-coupled time-of-flight mass spectrometry and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy metabolite identification in white wines from a sensory study investigating wine body
K. Skogerson, R. Runnebaum, G. Wohlgemuth, J. de Ropp, H. Heymann, O. Fiehn
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (2009) · DOI
Metabolite profiling of human colon carcinoma -- deregulation of TCA cycle and amino acid turnover
C. Denkert, J. Budczies, W. Weichert, G. Wohlgemuth, M. Scholz, T. Kind, S. Niesporek, A. Noske, A. Buckendahl, M. Dietel, O. Fiehn
Molecular Cancer (2008) · DOI
Quality control for plant metabolomics: reporting MSI-compliant studies
O. Fiehn, G. Wohlgemuth, M. Scholz, T. Kind, D.Y. Lee, Y. Lu, S. Moon, B. Nikolau
The Plant Journal (2008) · DOI
Setup and Annotation of Metabolomic Experiments by Integrating Biological and Mass Spectrometric Metadata
G. Wohlgemuth, O. Fiehn
Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (2005) · DOI