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ArticleMetabolites2022

EASY-FIA: A Readably Usable Standalone Tool for High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics Data Pre-Processing.

Aurelia Morabito, Giulia De Simone, Manuela Ferrario, Francesca Falcetta, Roberta Pastorelli, Laura Brunelli

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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 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Aurelia MorabitoLaboratory of Mass Spectrometry, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 20156 Milan, Italy.
Giulia De SimoneLaboratory of Mass Spectrometry, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 20156 Milan, Italy.
Manuela FerrarioDepartment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7371-3624
Francesca FalcettaUnit of Biophysics, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 20156 Milan, Italy.
Roberta PastorelliLaboratory of Mass Spectrometry, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 20156 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5097-600X
Laura BrunelliLaboratory of Mass Spectrometry, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, 20156 Milan, Italy.
Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research · ITPolitecnico di Milano · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flow injection analysis coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry (FIA-HRMS) is a fair trade-off between resolution and speed. However, free software available for data pre-processing is few, web-based, and often requires advanced user specialization. These tools rarely embedded blank and noise evaluation strategies, and direct feature annotation. We developed EASY-FIA, a free standalone application that can be employed for FIA-HRMS metabolomic data pre-processing by users with no bioinformatics/programming skills. We validated the tool's performance and applicability in two clinical metabolomics case studies. The main functions of our application are blank subtraction, alignment of the metabolites, and direct feature annotation by means of the Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) using a minimum number of mass spectrometry parameters. In a scenario where FIA-HRMS is increasingly recognized as a reliable strategy for fast metabolomics analysis, EASY-FIA could become a standardized and feasible tool easily usable by all scientists dealing with MS-based metabolomics. EASY-FIA was implemented in MATLAB with the App Designer tool and it is freely available for download.

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FIA-HRMS data pre-processingFlow Injection Analysis-High Resolution Mass Spectrometrymetabolomicsm/z alignment and annotation

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PMID36676938
PMCPMC9861133
OpenAlexW4313361937

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