title: Joint Bounding of Peaks Across Samples Improves Differential Analysis in Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics.
abstract: As mass spectrometry-based metabolomics becomes more widely used in biomedical research, it is important to revisit existing data analysis paradigms. Existing data preprocessing efforts have largely focused on methods which start by extracting features separately from each sample, followed by a subsequent attempt to group features across samples to facilitate comparisons. We show that this preprocessing approach leads to unnecessary variability in peak quantifications that adversely impacts downstream analysis. We present a new method, bakedpi, for the preprocessing of both centroid and profile mode metabolomics data that relies on an intensity-weighted bivariate kernel density estimation on a pooling of all samples to detect peaks. This new method reduces this unnecessary quantification variability and increases power in downstream differential analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States.
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Myint
authors.affiliation: Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States.
authors.forename: Andre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kleensang
authors.affiliation: Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States.
authors.forename: Liang
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2126-6778
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States.|University of Konstanz , CAAT-Europe, 78457 Konstanz, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-1359-7689
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hartung
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States.|McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States.
authors.forename: Kasper D
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0086-0687
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Hansen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000728:Androgens / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D002460:Cell Line; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006946:Hyperinsulinism / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D007223:Infant; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D061986:MCF-7 Cells; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D055432:Metabolomics; D051379:Mice; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D000077185:Resveratrol / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000728:Androgens; D000077185:Resveratrol