Wei, Xiaoli Sun, Wenlong Shi, Xue Koo, Imhoi Wang, Bing Zhang, Jun Yin, Xinmin Tang, Yunan Bogdanov, Bogdan Kim, Seongho Zhou, Zhanxiang McClain, Craig Zhang, Xiang MetSign: A Computational Platform for High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics Data analysis in metabolomics is currently a major challenge, particularly when large sample sets are analyzed. Herein, we present a novel computational platform entitled <i>MetSign</i> for high-resolution mass spectrometry-based metabolomics. By converting the instrument raw data into mzXML format as its input data, <i>MetSign</i> provides a suite of bioinformatics tools to perform raw data deconvolution, metabolite putative assignment, peak list alignment, normalization, statistical significance tests, unsupervised pattern recognition, and time course analysis. <i>MetSign</i> uses a modular design and an interactive visual data mining approach to enable efficient extraction of useful patterns from data sets. Analysis steps, designed as containers, are presented with a wizard for the user to follow analyses. Each analysis step might contain multiple analysis procedures and/or methods and serves as a pausing point where users can interact with the system to review the results, to shape the next steps, and to return to previous steps to repeat them with different methods or parameter settings. Analysis of metabolite extract of mouse liver with spiked-in acid standards shows that <i>MetSign</i> outperforms the existing publically available software packages. <i>MetSign</i> has also been successfully applied to investigate the regulation and time course trajectory of metabolites in hepatic liver. analysis step;input data;data sets;data mining approach;Computational Platform;hepatic liver;metabolite;time course analysis;software packages;mouse liver;sample sets;peak list alignment;time course trajectory;bioinformatics tools;significance tests;mzXML format;parameter settings;MetSign;analysis steps;unsupervised pattern recognition;analysis procedures;data deconvolution 2011-10-15
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10.1021/ac2017025.s001