Enhancing untargeted metabolomics using metadata-based source annotation

Julia M. Gauglitz, Kiana A. West, Wout Bittremieux, Candace L. Williams, Kelly C. Weldon, Morgan Panitchpakdi, Francesca Di Ottavio, Christine M. Aceves, Elizabeth Brown, Nicole C. Sikora, Alan K. Jarmusch, Cameron Martino, Anupriya Tripathi, Michael J. Meehan, Kathleen Dorrestein, Justin P. Shaffer, Roxana Coras, Fernando Vargas, Lindsay De Right Goldasich, Tara SchwartzMacKenzie K. Bryant, Gregory Humphrey, Abigail J. Johnson, Katharina Spengler, Pedro Belda-Ferre, Edgar Diaz, Daniel McDonald, Qiyun Zhu, Emmanuel O. Elijah, Mingxun Wang, Clarisse Marotz, Kate E. Sprecher, Daniela Vargas-Robles, Dana Withrow, Gail Ackermann, Lourdes Herrera, Barry J. Bradford, Lucas Maciel Mauriz Marques, Juliano Geraldo Amaral, Rodrigo Moreira Silva, Flavio Protasio Veras, Thiago Mattar Cunha, Rene Donizeti Ribeiro Oliveira, Paulo Louzada-Junior, Robert H. Mills, Paulina K. Piotrowski, Stephanie L. Servetas, Sandra M. Da Silva, Christina M. Jones, Nancy J. Lin, Katrice A. Lippa, Scott A. Jackson, Rima Kaddurah Daouk, Douglas Galasko, Parambir S. Dulai, Tatyana I. Kalashnikova, Curt Wittenberg, Robert Terkeltaub, Megan M. Doty, Jae H. Kim, Kyung E. Rhee, Julia Beauchamp-Walters, Kenneth P. Wright, Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Mark Manary, Michelli F. Oliveira, Brigid S. Boland, Norberto Peporine Lopes, Monica Guma, Austin D. Swafford, Rachel J. Dutton, Rob Knight, Pieter C. Dorrestein

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Abstract

Human untargeted metabolomics studies annotate only ~10% of molecular features. We introduce reference-data-driven analysis to match metabolomics tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) data against metadata-annotated source data as a pseudo-MS/MS reference library. Applying this approach to food source data, we show that it increases MS/MS spectral usage 5.1-fold over conventional structural MS/MS library matches and allows empirical assessment of dietary patterns from untargeted data.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1774-1779
Number of pages6
JournalNature biotechnology
Volume40
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2022
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Bioengineering
  • Molecular Medicine
  • Biotechnology
  • Biomedical Engineering

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