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ArticleAnalytical chemistry2023

Generalized Tree Structure to Annotate Untargeted Metabolomics and Stable Isotope Tracing Data.

Shuzhao Li, Shujian Zheng

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Article in Analytical chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Assessing the metabolomics "dark matter" by a detectable khipu model.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2026
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  4. Metabolomics Data Processing Using the Asari Toolkit.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  5. Practicing Data Science in Interactive Notebooks.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  7. Constructing a consensus serum metabolome.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  8. Annotation of Metabolites in Stable Isotope Tracing Untargeted Metabolomics via Khipu-web.Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · 2024
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2 authors.

Shuzhao LiJackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut 06032, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7386-2539
Shujian ZhengJackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut 06032, United States.

Funding

TBDR01AI149746 · NIAID · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI LI, SHUZHAO · 2020 to 2024
$2.6M
Mummichog 3, aligning mass spectrometry data to biological networks - Neutral LossU01CA235493 · NCI · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI LI, SHUZHAO, SIUZDAK, GARY E · 2018 to 2021
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA235493NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI149746
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In untargeted metabolomics, multiple ions are often measured for each original metabolite, including isotopic forms and in-source modifications, such as adducts and fragments. Without prior knowledge of the chemical identity or formula, computational organization and interpretation of these ions is challenging, which is the deficit of previous software tools that perform the task using network algorithms. We propose here a generalized tree structure to annotate ions in relationships to the original compound and infer neutral mass. An algorithm is presented to convert mass distance networks to this tree structure with high fidelity. This method is useful for both regular untargeted metabolomics and stable isotope tracing experiments. It is implemented as a Python package (khipu) and provides a JSON format for easy data exchange and software interoperability. By generalized preannotation, khipu makes it feasible to connect metabolomics data with common data science tools and supports flexible experimental designs.

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PMID37018697
PMCPMC10117393

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