ConceptMetab: exploring relationships among metabolite sets to identify links among biomedical concepts.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Capabilities in the field of metabolomics have grown tremendously in recent years. Many existing resources contain the chemical properties and classifications of commonly identified metabolites. However, the annotation of small molecules (both endogenous and synthetic) to meaningful biological pathways and concepts still lags behind the analytical capabilities and the chemistry-based annotations. Furthermore, no tools are available to visually explore relationships and networks among functionally related groups of metabolites (biomedical concepts). Such a tool would provide the ability to establish testable hypotheses regarding links among metabolic pathways, cellular processes, phenotypes and diseases.

Results

Here we present ConceptMetab, an interactive web-base

SUBMITTER: Cavalcante RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5860403 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature