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ArticleNucleic acids research2020

NOREVA: enhanced normalization and evaluation of time-course and multi-class metabolomic data.

Qingxia Yang, Yunxia Wang, Ying Zhang, Fengcheng Li, Weiqi Xia, Ying Zhou, Yunqing Qiu, Honglin Li, Feng Zhu

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Qingxia YangCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Yunxia WangCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Ying ZhangCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Fengcheng LiCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Weiqi XiaCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Ying ZhouZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Drug Clinical Research and Evaluation & The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310000, China.
Yunqing QiuZhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Drug Clinical Research and Evaluation & The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310000, China.
Honglin LiSchool of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
Feng ZhuCollege of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.

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Abstract

Biological processes (like microbial growth & physiological response) are usually dynamic and require the monitoring of metabolic variation at different time-points. Moreover, there is clear shift from case-control (N=2) study to multi-class (N>2) problem in current metabolomics, which is crucial for revealing the mechanisms underlying certain physiological process, disease metastasis, etc. These time-course and multi-class metabolomics have attracted great attention, and data normalization is essential for removing unwanted biological/experimental variations in these studies. However, no tool (including NOREVA 1.0 focusing only on case-control studies) is available for effectively assessing the performance of normalization method on time-course/multi-class metabolomic data. Thus, NOREVA was updated to version 2.0 by (i) realizing normalization and evaluation of both time-course and multi-class metabolomic data, (ii) integrating 144 normalization methods of a recently proposed combination strategy and (iii) identifying the well-performing methods by comprehensively assessing the largest set of normalizations (168 in total, significantly larger than those 24 in NOREVA 1.0). The significance of this update was extensively validated by case studies on benchmark datasets. All in all, NOREVA 2.0 is distinguished for its capability in identifying well-performing normalization method(s) for time-course and multi-class metabolomics, which makes it an indispensable complement to other available tools. NOREVA can be accessed at https://idrblab.org/noreva/.

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