Special Issue "Development and Application of Statistical Methods for Analyzing Metabolomics Data Volume 2"

A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioinformatics and Data Analysis".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 1150

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Biometris, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: metabolomics analytics; data mining statistics; food science; data science; data Analysis; data visualization; exploratory data analysis; computational statistics
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Dear Colleagues,

In the last decade, the field of metabolomics has developed tremendously. It is now possible to routinely measure a wide range of metabolites for many specimens at reduced cost. This has provided opportunities for exciting experiments such as time-resolved metabolomics, multi-sample and multi-species metabolomics, or cross-omics experiments, among others. Data analysis is a crucial step for extraction of meaningful information from the complex data acquired in this manner. As a result, the rapid developments in powerful metabolomics experiments must be matched with developments in statistical methodology for experimental analysis.  

This Special Issue is dedicated to the development or application of statistical methods for analyzing metabolomics data. We invite researchers to submit their manuscripts outlining novel data processing and data analysis methods for metabolomics. The scope of this Special Issue is not limited to this topic, but also includes experimental design, data acquisition methods, and applied metabolomics studies in which data analysis played an especially attractive role.

Dr. Jos Hageman
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • univariate/multivariate statistics
  • chemometrics
  • data analysis
  • experimental design

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Bucket Fuser: Statistical Signal Extraction for 1D 1H NMR Metabolomic Data
Metabolites 2022, 12(9), 812; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo12090812 - 29 Aug 2022
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Untargeted metabolomics is a promising tool for identifying novel disease biomarkers and unraveling underlying pathomechanisms. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is particularly suited for large-scale untargeted metabolomics studies due to its high reproducibility and cost effectiveness. Here, one-dimensional (1D) 1H NMR experiments [...] Read more.
Untargeted metabolomics is a promising tool for identifying novel disease biomarkers and unraveling underlying pathomechanisms. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is particularly suited for large-scale untargeted metabolomics studies due to its high reproducibility and cost effectiveness. Here, one-dimensional (1D) 1H NMR experiments offer good sensitivity at reasonable measurement times. Their subsequent data analysis requires sophisticated data preprocessing steps, including the extraction of NMR features corresponding to specific metabolites. We developed a novel 1D NMR feature extraction procedure, called Bucket Fuser (BF), which is based on a regularized regression framework with fused group LASSO terms. The performance of the BF procedure was demonstrated using three independent NMR datasets and was benchmarked against existing state-of-the-art NMR feature extraction methods. BF dynamically constructs NMR metabolite features, the widths of which can be adjusted via a regularization parameter. BF consistently improved metabolite signal extraction, as demonstrated by our correlation analyses with absolutely quantified metabolites. It also yielded a higher proportion of statistically significant metabolite features in our differential metabolite analyses. The BF algorithm is computationally efficient and it can deal with small sample sizes. In summary, the Bucket Fuser algorithm, which is available as a supplementary python code, facilitates the fast and dynamic extraction of 1D NMR signals for the improved detection of metabolic biomarkers. Full article
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