Homologue series detection and management in LC-MS data with homologueDiscoverer

Bioinformatics. 2022 Nov 15;38(22):5139-5140. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac647.

Abstract

Summary: Untargeted metabolomics data analysis is highly labour intensive and can be severely frustrated by both experimental noise and redundant features. Homologous polymer series is a particular case of features that can either represent large numbers of noise features or alternatively represent features of interest with large peak redundancy. Here, we present homologueDiscoverer, an R package that allows for the targeted and untargeted detection of homologue series as well as their evaluation and management using interactive plots and simple local database functionalities.

Availability and implementation: homologueDiscoverer is freely available at GitHub https://github.com/kevinmildau/homologueDiscoverer.

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Chromatography, Liquid
  • Data Analysis
  • Metabolomics
  • Software*
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry*