Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40885726›Full record

ArticleNature communications2025

Knowledge and data-driven two-layer networking for accurate metabolite annotation in untargeted metabolomics.

Haosong Zhang, Xinhao Zeng, Yandong Yin, Zheng-Jiang Zhu

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Large-Scale Metabolite Annotation in Untargeted Metabolomics Using MetDNA.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
    Article
  11. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Haosong ZhangInterdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-7482-2607
Xinhao ZengInterdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Yandong YinInterdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Zheng-Jiang ZhuInterdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. jiangzhu@sioc.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3272-3567

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolite annotation in untargeted metabolomics remains challenging due to the vast structural diversity of metabolites. Network-based approaches have emerged as powerful strategies, particularly for annotating metabolites lacking chemical standards. Here, we develop a two-layer interactive networking topology that integrates data-driven and knowledge-driven networks to enhance metabolite annotation. A comprehensive metabolic reaction network is curated using graph neural network-based prediction of reaction relationships, enhancing both coverage and network connectivity. Experimental data are pre-mapped onto this network via sequential MS1 matching, reaction relationship mapping, and MS2 similarity constraints. The generated networking topology enables interactive annotation propagation with over 10-fold improved computational efficiency. In common biological samples, it annotates over 1600 seed metabolites with chemical standards and >12,000 putatively annotated metabolites through network-based propagation. Notably, two previously uncharacterized endogenous metabolites absent from human metabolome databases have been discovered. Overall, this strategy significantly improves the coverage, accuracy, and efficiency of metabolite annotation and is freely available as MetDNA3.

Indexed as

Metabolic Networks and PathwaysMetabolomeMetabolomicsComputational BiologyDatabases, FactualHumansNeural Networks, Computer

Identifiers

PMID40885726
PMCPMC12398597

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.