Baitmet, a computational approach for GC–MS library-driven metabolite profiling

Current computational tools for gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC – MS) metabolomics profiling do not focus on metabolite identification, that still remains as the entire workflow bottleneck and it relies on manual d ata reviewing. Metabolomics ad vent has fostered the development of public...

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Autores: Domingo, Xavier, Brezmes, Jesus, Venturini, G, Vivó-Truyols, Gabriel, Perera Lluna, Alexandre|||0000-0001-6427-851X, Vinaixa, Maria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/105910
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/105910
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11306-017-1223-x
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Gas chromatography
Mass spectrometry
Compound profiling
Gas
chromatography
Metabolomics
Cromatografia de gasos
Espectrofotometria
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Sumario:Current computational tools for gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC – MS) metabolomics profiling do not focus on metabolite identification, that still remains as the entire workflow bottleneck and it relies on manual d ata reviewing. Metabolomics ad vent has fostered the development of public metabolite repositories containing mass spectra and retentio n indices, two orthogonal prop erties needed for metabol ite identification. Such libraries can be used for library - driven compound profiling of large datasets produced in metabolomics, a complementary approach to current GC – MS non - targeted data analysis solutions that can eventually help to assess metabolite i dentities more efficiently. Results: This paper introduces Baitmet, an integrated open - source computational tool written in R enclosing a complete workflow to perform high - throughput library - driven GC – MS profiling in complex samples. Baitmet capabilities w ere assa yed in a metabolomics study in volving 182 human serum samples where a set of 61 metabolites were profiled given a reference library. Conclusions: Baitmet allows high - thr oughput and wide scope interro gation on the metabolic composition of complex sa mples analyzed using GC – MS via freely available spectral data