High-confidence structural annotation of metabolites absent from spectral libraries.

ABSTRACT: Untargeted metabolomics experiments rely on spectral libraries for structure annotation, but, typically, only a small fraction of spectra can be matched. Previous in silico methods search in structure databases but cannot distinguish between correct and incorrect annotations. Here we introduce the COSMIC workflow that combines in silico structure database generation and annotation with a confidence score consisting of kernel density P value estimation and a support vector machine with enforced directionality of features. On diverse datasets, COSMIC annotates a substantial number of hits at low false discovery rates and outperforms spectral library search. To demonstrate that COSMIC can annotate structures never reported before, we annotated 12 natural bile acids. The annotation of nine str

SUBMITTER: Hoffmann MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8926923 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature