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ArticleMetabolites2022

TraVis Pies: A Guide for Stable Isotope Metabolomics Interpretation Using an Intuitive Visualization.

Sam De Craemer, Karen Driesen, Bart Ghesquière

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Article in Metabolites, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sam De CraemerMetabolomics Expertise Center, VIB Center for Cancer Biology, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-4978-8188
Karen DriesenMetabolomics Expertise Center, VIB Center for Cancer Biology, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2153-1498
Bart GhesquièreMetabolomics Expertise Center, VIB Center for Cancer Biology, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-1547-1705

Funding

KU Leuven C14/17/110
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tracer metabolomics is a powerful technology for the biomedical community to study and understand disease-inflicted metabolic mechanisms. However, the interpretation of tracer metabolomics results is highly technical, as the metabolites' abundances, tracer incorporation and positions on the metabolic map all must be jointly interpreted. The field is currently lacking a structured approach to help less experienced researchers start the interpretation of tracer metabolomics datasets. We propose an approach using an intuitive visualization concept aided by a novel open-source tool, and provide guidelines on how researchers can apply the approach and the visualization tool to their own datasets. Using a showcase experiment, we demonstrate that the visualization approach leads to an intuitive interpretation that can ease researchers into understanding their tracer metabolomics data.

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biochemical pathwaysdata visualizationtracer metabolomics

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PMID35888717
PMCPMC9321460

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