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Metabolomics: From Fundamentals to Clinical Applications

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Chapter title
Computational Strategies for Biological Interpretation of Metabolomics Data
Chapter number 8
Book title
Metabolomics: From Fundamentals to Clinical Applications
Published in
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, January 2017
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47656-8_8
Pubmed ID
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-947655-1, 978-3-31-947656-8
Authors

Jianguo Xia

Editors

Alessandra Sussulini

Abstract

Biological interpretation of metabolomics data relies on two basic steps: metabolite identification and functional analysis. These two steps need to be applied in a coordinated manner to enable effective data understanding. The focus of this chapter is to introduce the main computational concepts and workflows during this process. After a general overview of the field, three sections will be presented: the first section will introduce the main computational methods and bioinformatics tools for metabolite identification using spectra from common analytical platforms; the second section will focus on introducing major bioinformatics approaches for functional enrichment analysis of metabolomics data; and the last section will discuss the three main workflows in current metabolomics studies, including the chemometrics approach, the metabolic profiling approach and the more recent chemo-enrichment analysis approach. The chapter ends with summary and future perspectives on computational metabolomics.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 3%
Unknown 30 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 29%
Student > Master 4 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 10%
Lecturer 2 6%
Other 2 6%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 6 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 26%
Computer Science 2 6%
Chemistry 2 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 7 23%