Non-targeted UHPLC-MS metabolomic data processing methods: a comparative investigation of normalisation, missing value imputation, transformation and scaling

Metabolomics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Di Guida, Riccardo ^a   Engel, Jasper ^a   Allwood, J William ^a   Weber, Ralf J M ^a   Jones, Martin R ^a   Sommer, Ulf ^a   Viant, Mark R ^a   Dunn, Warwick B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glog transformation; KNN; Metabolomics; PQN normalisation; Random forest; UHPLC MS

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMAL; METABOLITE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RANDOM FOREST; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84963799935     PISSN: 15733882     EISSN: 15733890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11306-016-1030-9     Document Type: Article

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