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. 2012 Apr 1;28(7):1048-9.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts069. Epub 2012 Feb 4.

IDEOM: an Excel interface for analysis of LC-MS-based metabolomics data

Darren J Creek  1 , Andris Jankevics, Karl E V Burgess, Rainer Breitling, Michael P Barrett
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IDEOM: an Excel interface for analysis of LC-MS-based metabolomics data

Darren J Creek et al. Bioinformatics. .
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Abstract

Summary: The application of emerging metabolomics technologies to the comprehensive investigation of cellular biochemistry has been limited by bottlenecks in data processing, particularly noise filtering and metabolite identification. IDEOM provides a user-friendly data processing application that automates filtering and identification of metabolite peaks, paying particular attention to common sources of noise and false identifications generated by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) platforms. Building on advanced processing tools such as mzMatch and XCMS, it allows users to run a comprehensive pipeline for data analysis and visualization from a graphical user interface within Microsoft Excel, a familiar program for most biological scientists.

Availability and implementation: IDEOM is provided free of charge at http://mzmatch.sourceforge.net/ideom.html, as a macro-enabled spreadsheet (.xlsb). Implementation requires Microsoft Excel (2007 or later). R is also required for full functionality.

Contact: michael.barrett@glasgow.ac.uk

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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