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MolNetEnhancer: Enhanced Molecular Networks by Integrating Metabolome Mining and Annotation Tools.

Madeleine Ernst, Kyo Bin Kang, Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodríguez, Louis-Felix Nothias, Joe Wandy, Christopher Chen, Mingxun Wang, Simon Rogers, Marnix H Medema, Pieter C Dorrestein and 1 more

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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 191 papers.

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191citing papers in PubMed
15.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

191 citing papers in PubMed, 374 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.

Madeleine ErnstCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. maet@ssi.dk.ORCID 0000-0001-9530-3837
Kyo Bin KangCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3290-1017
Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-RodríguezCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Louis-Felix NothiasCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6711-6719
Joe WandyGlasgow Polyomics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3068-4664
Christopher ChenCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Mingxun WangCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Simon RogersSchool of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3578-4477
Marnix H MedemaBioinformatics Group, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2191-2821
Pieter C DorresteinCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Justin J J van der HooftCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. justin.vanderhooft@wur.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-9340-5511
University of California San Diego · USUniversity of Glasgow · GBSookmyung Women's University · KRStatens Serum Institut · DKWageningen University & Research · NL

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R022054/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/R018634/1Netherlands eScience Center ASDI.2017.030US National Science Foundation IOS-1656481
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolomics has started to embrace computational approaches for chemical interpretation of large data sets. Yet, metabolite annotation remains a key challenge. Recently, molecular networking and MS2LDA emerged as molecular mining tools that find molecular families and substructures in mass spectrometry fragmentation data. Moreover, in silico annotation tools obtain and rank candidate molecules for fragmentation spectra. Ideally, all structural information obtained and inferred from these computational tools could be combined to increase the resulting chemical insight one can obtain from a data set. However, integration is currently hampered as each tool has its own output format and efficient matching of data across these tools is lacking. Here, we introduce MolNetEnhancer, a workflow that combines the outputs from molecular networking, MS2LDA, in silico annotation tools (such as Network Annotation Propagation or DEREPLICATOR), and the automated chemical classification through ClassyFire to provide a more comprehensive chemical overview of metabolomics data whilst at the same time illuminating structural details for each fragmentation spectrum. We present examples from four plant and bacterial case studies and show how MolNetEnhancer enables the chemical annotation, visualization, and discovery of the subtle substructural diversity within molecular families. We conclude that MolNetEnhancer is a useful tool that greatly assists the metabolomics researcher in deciphering the metabolome through combination of multiple independent in silico pipelines.

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chemical classificationin silico workflowsmetabolite annotationmetabolite identificationmetabolome miningmolecular familiesnetworkingsubstructures

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PMID31315242
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