Title
CliqueMS: A computational tool for annotating in-source metabolite ions from LC-MS untargeted metabolomics data based on a coelution similarity network.
Abstract
Motivation: The analysis of biological samples in untargeted metabolomic studies using LC-MS yields tens of thousands of ion signals. Annotating these features is of the utmost importance for answering questions as fundamental as, e.g. how many metabolites are there in a given sample. Results: Here, we introduce CliqueMS, a new algorithm for annotating in-source LC-MS1 data. CliqueMS is based on the similarity between coelution profiles and therefore, as opposed to most methods, allows for the annotation of a single spectrum. Furthermore, CliqueMS improves upon the state of the art in several dimensions: (i) it uses a more discriminatory feature similarity metric; (ii) it treats the similarities between features in a transparent way by means of a simple generative model; (iii) it uses a well-grounded maximum likelihood inference approach to group features; (iv) it uses empirical adduct frequencies to identify the parental mass and (v) it deals more flexibly with the identification of the parental mass by proposing and ranking alternative annotations. We validate our approach with simple mixtures of standards and with real complex biological samples. CliqueMS reduces the thousands of features typically obtained in complex samples to hundreds of metabolites, and it is able to correctly annotate more metabolites and adducts from a single spectrum than available tools.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1093/bioinformatics/btz207
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,Computer science,Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry,Metabolomics,Computational biology,Metabolite
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
20
1367-4803
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oriol Senan100.34
Antoni Aguilar-Mogas200.68
Miriam Navarro300.34
Jordi Capellades400.34
Luke Noon500.34
Deborah Burks600.34
Oscar Yanes701.35
R Guimerà814461.73
M Sales-Pardo91028.63