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biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology

Enhancing untargeted metabolomics using metadata-based source annotation

Nature Biotechnology, Volume 40, No. 12, Year 2022

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. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.

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Food Security