MiMIR: R-shiny application to infer risk factors and endpoints from Nightingale Health's 1H-NMR metabolomics data

Bioinformatics. 2022 Aug 2;38(15):3847-3849. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac388.

Abstract

Motivation: 1H-NMR metabolomics is rapidly becoming a standard resource in large epidemiological studies to acquire metabolic profiles in large numbers of samples in a relatively low-priced and standardized manner. Concomitantly, metabolomics-based models are increasingly developed that capture disease risk or clinical risk factors. These developments raise the need for user-friendly toolbox to inspect new 1H-NMR metabolomics data and project a wide array of previously established risk models.

Results: We present MiMIR (Metabolomics-based Models for Imputing Risk), a graphical user interface that provides an intuitive framework for ad hoc statistical analysis of Nightingale Health's 1H-NMR metabolomics data and allows for the projection and calibration of 24 pre-trained metabolomics-based models, without any pre-required programming knowledge.

Availability and implementation: The R-shiny package is available in CRAN or downloadable at https://github.com/DanieleBizzarri/MiMIR, together with an extensive user manual (also available as Supplementary Documents to the article).

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Metabolome
  • Metabolomics* / methods
  • Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Risk Factors
  • Software*