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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2014

MetaDB a Data Processing Workflow in Untargeted MS-Based Metabolomics Experiments.

Pietro Franceschi, Roman Mylonas, Nir Shahaf, Matthias Scholz, Panagiotis Arapitsas, Domenico Masuero, Georg Weingart, Silvia Carlin, Urska Vrhovsek, Fulvio Mattivi and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  16. Data standards can boost metabolomics research, and if there is a will, there is a way.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2016
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  17. Improved batch correction in untargeted MS-based metabolomics.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Pietro FranceschiResearch and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach , San Michele all'Adige, Trento , Italy.
Roman MylonasResearch and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach , San Michele all'Adige, Trento , Italy.
Nir ShahafResearch and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach , San Michele all'Adige, Trento , Italy ; Institute of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Rehovot , Israel.
Matthias ScholzResearch and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach , San Michele all'Adige, Trento , Italy.
Panagiotis ArapitsasResearch and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach , San Michele all'Adige, Trento , Italy.
Domenico MasueroResearch and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach , San Michele all'Adige, Trento , Italy.
Georg WeingartResearch and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach , San Michele all'Adige, Trento , Italy.
Silvia CarlinResearch and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach , San Michele all'Adige, Trento , Italy.
Urska VrhovsekResearch and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach , San Michele all'Adige, Trento , Italy.
Fulvio MattiviResearch and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach , San Michele all'Adige, Trento , Italy.
Ron WehrensResearch and Innovation Centre, Fondazione E. Mach , San Michele all'Adige, Trento , Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to their sensitivity and speed, mass-spectrometry based analytical technologies are widely used to in metabolomics to characterize biological phenomena. To address issues like metadata organization, quality assessment, data processing, data storage, and, finally, submission to public repositories, bioinformatic pipelines of a non-interactive nature are often employed, complementing the interactive software used for initial inspection and visualization of the data. These pipelines often are created as open-source software allowing the complete and exhaustive documentation of each step, ensuring the reproducibility of the analysis of extensive and often expensive experiments. In this paper, we will review the major steps which constitute such a data processing pipeline, discussing them in the context of an open-source software for untargeted MS-based metabolomics experiments recently developed at our institute. The software has been developed by integrating our metaMS R package with a user-friendly web-based application written in Grails. MetaMS takes care of data pre-processing and annotation, while the interface deals with the creation of the sample lists, the organization of the data storage, and the generation of survey plots for quality assessment. Experimental and biological metadata are stored in the ISA-Tab format making the proposed pipeline fully integrated with the Metabolights framework.

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data analysisGC-MSISA-TabLC-MSmetabolomicspipeline

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PMID25566535
PMCPMC4267269

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