The regional symposium Métasud 2019 aims to bring together the largest number of regional actors, both academic and industrial, of this discipline so that they can: (i) expose their advances and competences in the various areas of metabolomics (methodological and analytical developments, data processing, statistical analysis...), (ii) exchange knowledge in order to raise their theoretical and practical levels and (iii) reassemble their needs, particularly with regard to socio-economic partners.

The Métasud 2019 symposium is widely open to companies directly involved in metabolomics (builders, suppliers, developers...) as well as regional socio-economic actors developing or wishing to develop metabolomic approaches.
This symposium also aims to present a wide range of studies in metabolomics to an audience of non-specialists wishing to learn this discipline (hospital staff, researchers and teachers-researchers from related disciplines, engineers, technicians...).

The Métasud 2019 symposium carried by the four regional universities (Avignon University, Aix-Marseille University, Nice Sophia-Antipolis University, University of Toulon) follows two previous regional events: "Metabolomics & Lipidomics in Biology and Health" organised at Nice on December 2015 and a practical workshop entitled "Understanding and initiating analyses in metabolomics" held on December 2016 at Marseilles.