MetaDB a Data Processing Workflow in Untargeted MS-Based Metabolomics Experiments.

ABSTRACT: Due to their sensitivity and speed, mass-spectrometry based analytical technologies are widely used to in metabolomics to characterize biological phenomena. To address issues like metadata organization, quality assessment, data processing, data storage, and, finally, submission to public repositories, bioinformatic pipelines of a non-interactive nature are often employed, complementing the interactive software used for initial inspection and visualization of the data. These pipelines often are created as open-source software allowing the complete and exhaustive documentation of each step, ensuring the reproducibility of the analysis of extensive and often expensive experiments. In this paper, we will review the major steps which constitute such a data processing pipeline, discussing them i

SUBMITTER: Franceschi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4267269 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature