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Abstract #2986

Automatic Identification of Potential Cellular MRS Metabolites

Ella Zhang1, Jiashang Chen1, Angela Rao1, Jonathan X. Zhou1, Evan Zhang1, Andrew Weissman1, Zuzanna Kobus1, Marta Kobus1, Li Su2, David C. Christiani2, and Leo L. Cheng1
1Radiology and Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 2Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Data Processing, Data Analysis, Metabolomics, metabolomic imaging, nuclear magnetic resonance, spectroscopy, biomarkers, data processing, metabolism, metabolites

Motivation: Manual identification of potential metabolites from untargeted MRS-based metabolomics studies is often tedious, labor-intensive, and prone to error.

Goal(s): To develop an automated and customizable program to systematically identify metabolites from spectral regions of interest (ROIs) based on databases, such as Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) for specific medical conditions.

Approach: We integrated experimental data — including ROIs, statistical significance, group trends/comparisons, and tissue- and disease-specific information — with automated HMDB searching, to output relevant and significant potential metabolites.

Results: Given spectral ROIs, and relevant significance and trend data, our program is capable of identifying possible disease- and tissue-specific metabolites.

Impact: Our program automates the manual database-searching process required for metabolite identification in MRS-based metabolomics research, enabling fast, robust, and reliable identification and categorization of metabolites based on user-customizable factors such as significance, trend, and tissue- and disease-specificity.

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