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  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Statistical Genetics

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  • Traditional correlation measures often discard or impute missing data, losing valuable information.
  • Missing values in omics data, particularly left-censored values below detection limits, are not random and contain useful information.
  • Existing methods fail to leverage the information inherent in left-censored missing data from analytical measurements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel methodology, information-content-informed Kendall-tau (ICI-Kt), to integrate left-censored missing values into correlation analysis.
  • To demonstrate how ICI-Kt reinterprets missing data as informative, enhancing correlation coefficient calculations.
  • To provide tools for improved outlier detection and feature network construction in omics studies.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the information-content-informed Kendall-tau (ICI-Kt) methodology.
  • Integrated left-censored missing values into the Kendall-tau correlation coefficient definition.
  • Implemented calculations for theoretical maxima and pairwise completeness for enhanced interpretation.
  • Validated the methodology using simulated and real-world RNA-seq, metabolomics, and lipidomics data.

Main Results:

  • The ICI-Kt methodology successfully incorporates left-censored missing data as interpretable information.
  • Demonstrated improved determination of outlier samples using ICI-Kt.
  • Showcased enhanced feature-feature network construction in omics datasets.
  • Achieved fast calculations via parallel implementations in R and Python for large datasets.

Conclusions:

  • The ICI-Kt methodology offers a robust approach to handling left-censored missing data in omics.
  • This method enhances the interpretability of correlation analyses by utilizing all available data.
  • Open-source R and Python packages are available for widespread adoption and application.