Title
GMSimpute: a generalized two-step Lasso approach to impute missing values in label-free mass spectrum analysis.
Abstract
Motivation Missingness in label-free mass spectrometry is inherent to the technology. A computational approach to recover missing values in metabolomics and proteomics datasets is important. Most existing methods are designed under a particular assumption, either missing at random or under the detection limit. If the missing pattern deviates from the assumption, it may lead to biased results. Hence, we investigate the missing patterns in free mass spectrometry data and develop an omnibus approach GMSimpute, to allow effective imputation accommodating different missing patterns. Results Three proteomics datasets and one metabolomics dataset indicate missing values could be a mixture of abundance-dependent and abundance-independent missingness. We assess the performance of GMSimpute using simulated data (with a wide range of 80 missing patterns) and metabolomics data from the Cancer Genome Atlas breast cancer and clear cell renal cell carcinoma studies. Using Pearson correlation and normalized root mean square errors between the true and imputed abundance, we compare its performance to K-nearest neighbors' type approaches, Random Forest, GSimp, a model-based method implemented in DanteR and minimum values. The results indicate GMSimpute provides higher accuracy in imputation and exhibits stable performance across different missing patterns. In addition, GMSimpute is able to identify the features in downstream differential expression analysis with high accuracy when applied to the Cancer Genome Atlas datasets. Availability and implementation GMSimpute is on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/GMSimpute/index.html. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1093/bioinformatics/btz488
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,Computer science,Mass spectrum analysis,Lasso (statistics),Missing data
Journal
36
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1367-4803
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
qian li12623.56
Kate Fisher200.34
Wenjun Meng300.34
Bin Fang400.34
Eric Welsh500.34
Eric B Haura600.68
John Koomen77710.39
Steven Eschrich88910.81
Brooke L. Fridley9264.66
Y Ann Chen1001.01