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ArticleJournal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology2023

EnsMOD: A Software Program for Omics Sample Outlier Detection.

Nathan P Manes, Jian Song, Aleksandra Nita-Lazar

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  4. Challenges and Opportunities for Statistics in Omics Data Analysis.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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Nathan P ManesLaboratory of Immune System Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Jian SongLaboratory of Immune System Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Aleksandra Nita-LazarLaboratory of Immune System Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8523-605X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Detection of omics sample outliers is important for preventing erroneous biological conclusions, developing robust experimental protocols, and discovering rare biological states. Two recent publications describe robust algorithms for detecting transcriptomic sample outliers, but neither algorithm had been incorporated into a software tool for scientists. Here we describe Ensemble Methods for Outlier Detection (EnsMOD) which incorporates both algorithms. EnsMOD calculates how closely the quantitation variation follows a normal distribution, plots the density curves of each sample to visualize anomalies, performs hierarchical cluster analyses to calculate how closely the samples cluster with each other, and performs robust principal component analyses to statistically test if any sample is an outlier. The probabilistic threshold parameters can be easily adjusted to tighten or loosen the outlier detection stringency. EnsMOD can be used to analyze any omics dataset with normally distributed variance. Here it was used to analyze a simulated proteomics dataset, a multiomic (proteome and transcriptome) dataset, a single-cell proteomics dataset, and a phosphoproteomics dataset. EnsMOD successfully identified all of the simulated outliers, and subsequent removal of a detected outlier improved data quality for downstream statistical analyses.

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AlgorithmsSoftwareGene Expression ProfilingMultiomicsProteomicshierarchical cluster analysismultivariateomicsoutlier detectionproteomicsrobust principal component analysis

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PMID37042708
PMCPMC10282819

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