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bioinformatics tools for mass spectroscopy-based metabolomic data processing and analysis

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Sugimoto, Masahiro, Kawakami, Masato, Robert, Martin, Soga, Tomoyoshi, Tomita, Masaru·2012·Current Bioinformatics

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Biological systems are increasingly being studied in a holistic manner, using omics approaches, to provide quantitative and qualitative descriptions of the diverse collection of cellular components. Among the omics approaches, metabolomics, which deals with the quantitative global profiling of small molecules or metabolites, is being used extensively to explore the dynamic response of living systems, such as organelles, cells, tissues, organs and whole organisms, under diverse physiological and pathological conditions. This technology is now used routinely in a number of applications, including basic and clinical research, agriculture, microbiology, food science, nutrition, pharmaceutical research, environmental science and the development of biofuels. Of the multiple analytical platforms available to perform such analyses, nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry have come to dominate, owing to the high resolution and large datasets that can be generated with these techniques. The large multidimensional datasets that result from such studies must be processed and analyzed to render this data meaningful. Thus, bioinformatics tools are essential for the efficient processing of huge datasets, the characterization of the detected signals, and to align multiple datasets and their features. This paper provides a state-of-the-art overview of the data processing tools available, and reviews a collection of recent reports on the topic. Data conversion, pre-processing, alignment, normalization and statistical analysis are introduced, with their advantages and disadvantages, and comparisons are made to guide the reader.

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  • There are many supervised methods, with partial least-squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) or its variants being the most commonly used for comparing two groups.

    “There are a large number of supervised methods (120, 127), with the most commonly used analysis for comparing 2 groups being partial least-squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) (132) or one of its several variants.”

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    “The metabolic profile of raw data generated by the spectrometric analysis of biological samples can be analyzed in several steps (119, 120).”

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  • These steps include data preprocessing, alignment, normalization, and signal correction, followed by statistical analysis.

    “These include data preprocessing, data alignment, data normalization, and signal correction followed by the analysis through various statistical methods.”

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Authors
Sugimoto, M., Kawakami, M., Robert, M., Soga, T., & Tomita, M.
Affiliations
  • Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University (JP)
  • Keio University (JP)
Corresponding author
Sugimoto, Masahiro
Venue
Current Bioinformatics
Published
2012-03-01
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
96-108
ISSN
1574-8936 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1984926446
Cited by
307
References
179
Citations by year
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FWCI
11.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Current Bioinformatics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
Keywords
metabolomics, mass spectrometry data processing, bioinformatics software, data preprocessing, data alignment, normalization, statistical analysis, data conversion, multi-omics integration, nuclear magnetic resonance

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