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Identification and Quantification of Deranged Metabolites in Critically Ill Patients Using NMR-Based Metabolomics
Published on: November 29, 2024
Challenges, progress and promises of metabolite annotation for LC-MS-based metabolomics
Romanas Chaleckis1, Isabel Meister1, Pei Zhang1
1Gunma University Initiative for Advanced Research (GIAR), Gunma University, Gunma, Japan; Division of Physiological Chemistry II, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Abstract:
Accurate annotation is vital for data interpretation; however, metabolite identification is a major bottleneck in untargeted metabolomics. Although community guidelines for metabolite identification were published over a decade ago, adaptation of the recommended standards has been limited. The complexity of LC-MS data due to combinations of various chromatographic and mass spectrometric acquisition methods has resulted in the advent of diverse workflows, which often involve non-standardized manual curation. Herein, we review the parameters involved in metabolite reporting and provide a workflow to estimate the level of confidence in reported metabolite annotation. The future of metabolite identification will be heavily based upon the use of metabolome data repositories and associated data analysis tools, which will enable data to be shared, re-analyzed and re-annotated in an automated fashion.
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