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ArticleMetabolites2019

CFM-ID 3.0: Significantly Improved ESI-MS/MS Prediction and Compound Identification.

Yannick Djoumbou-Feunang, Allison Pon, Naama Karu, Jiamin Zheng, Carin Li, David Arndt, Maheswor Gautam, Felicity Allen, David S Wishart

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Article in Metabolites, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers.

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Yannick Djoumbou-FeunangDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada. djoumbou@ualberta.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-7850-184X
Allison PonOMx Personal Health Analytics, Edmonton, AB T5J 1B9, Canada. allisonpon@gmail.com.
Naama KaruDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada. n.karu@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl.
Jiamin ZhengDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada. jiamin3@ualberta.ca.
Carin LiDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada. cbli@ualberta.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-9128-5029
David ArndtDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada. darndt@ualberta.ca.
Maheswor GautamDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada. maheswor@ualberta.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-0862-630X
Felicity AllenWellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK. felicity.allen@sanger.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-8694-3936
David S WishartDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada. david.wishart@ualberta.ca.

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research 148461Genome Alberta 12103
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolite identification for untargeted metabolomics is often hampered by the lack of experimentally collected reference spectra from tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). To circumvent this problem, Competitive Fragmentation Modeling-ID (CFM-ID) was developed to accurately predict electrospray ionization-MS/MS (ESI-MS/MS) spectra from chemical structures and to aid in compound identification via MS/MS spectral matching. While earlier versions of CFM-ID performed very well, CFM-ID's performance for predicting the MS/MS spectra of certain classes of compounds, including many lipids, was quite poor. Furthermore, CFM-ID's compound identification capabilities were limited because it did not use experimentally available MS/MS spectra nor did it exploit metadata in its spectral matching algorithm. Here, we describe significant improvements to CFM-ID's performance and speed. These include (1) the implementation of a rule-based fragmentation approach for lipid MS/MS spectral prediction, which greatly improves the speed and accuracy of CFM-ID; (2) the inclusion of experimental MS/MS spectra and other metadata to enhance CFM-ID's compound identification abilities; (3) the development of new scoring functions that improves CFM-ID's accuracy by 21.1%; and (4) the implementation of a chemical classification algorithm that correctly classifies unknown chemicals (based on their MS/MS spectra) in >80% of the cases. This improved version called CFM-ID 3.0 is freely available as a web server. Its source code is also accessible online.

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combinatorial fragmentationliquid chromatographymass spectrometrymetabolite identificationMS spectral predictionrule-based fragmentationstructure-based chemical classification

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PMID31013937
PMCPMC6523630

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