Title
ASICS: an R package for a whole analysis workflow of 1D 1H NMR spectra
Abstract
Motivation: In metabolomics, the detection of new biomarkers from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectra is a promising approach. However, this analysis remains difficult due to the lack of a whole workflow that handles spectra pre-processing, automatic identification and quantification of metabolites and statistical analyses, in a reproducible way. Results: We present ASICS, an R package that contains a complete workflow to analyse spectra from NMR experiments. It contains an automatic approach to identify and quantify metabolites in a complex mixture spectrum and uses the results of the quantification in untargeted and targeted statistical analyses. ASICS was shown to improve the precision of quantification in comparison to existing methods on two independent datasets. In addition, ASICS successfully recovered most metabolites that were found important to explain a two level condition describing the samples by a manual and expert analysis based on bucketing. It also found new relevant metabolites involved in metabolic pathways related to risk factors associated with the condition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1093/bioinformatics/btz248
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,Computer science,Computational science,Proton NMR,Workflow,R package
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
21
1367-4803
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
10