Automated annotation of untargeted all-ion fragmentation LC-MS metabolomics data with MetaboAnnotatoR
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Journal Article
Abstract
Untargeted metabolomics and lipidomics LC-MS experiments produce complex datasets, usually containing tens of thousands of features from thousands of metabolites whose annotation requires additional MS/MS experiments and expert knowledge. All-ion fragmentation (AIF) LC-MS/MS acquisition provides fragmentation data at no additional experimental time cost. However, analysis of such datasets requires reconstruction of parent fragment relationships and annotation of the resulting pseudo-MS/MS spectra. Here we propose a novel approach for automated annotation of isotopologues, adducts and in-source fragments from AIF LC-MS datasets by combining correlation-based parent-fragment linking with molecular fragment matching. Our workflow focuses on a subset of features rather than trying to annotate the full dataset, saving time and simplifying the process. We demonstrate the workflow in three human serum datasets containing 599 features manually annotated by experts. Precision and recall values of 82- 92% and 82-85% respectively, were obtained for features found in the highest-rank scores (1-5). These results equal or outperform those obtained using MS-DIAL software, the current state-of-the-art for AIF data annotation. Further validation for other biological matrices and different instrument types showed variable precision (60-89%) and recall (10-88%) particularly for datasets dominated by non-lipid metabolites. The workflow is freely available as an open-source R package, MetaboAnnotatoR, together with the fragment libraries from Github (https://github.com/gggraca/MetaboAnnotatoR).
Date Issued
2022-03-01
Date Acceptance
2021-12-15
Citation
Analytical Chemistry, 2022, 94 (8), pp.3446-3455
ISSN
0003-2700
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Start Page
3446
End Page
3455
Journal / Book Title
Analytical Chemistry
Volume
94
Issue
8
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0 International licence.
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Sponsor
National Institutes of Health
Medical Research Council
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Identifier
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03032
Grant Number
RO1HL133932
MR/S010483/1
BB/T007974/1
Subjects
Analytical Chemistry
0301 Analytical Chemistry
0399 Other Chemical Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2022-02-18