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Schmidt, Tobias ; Sombke, Maximilian ; Zacharias, Helena U. ; Oefner, Peter J. ; Spang, Rainer ; Gronwald, Wolfram

Metabodeconplus—An R Package for Automated Deconvolution and Alignment of 1D NMR Metabolomics Data

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Schmidt, Tobias, Sombke, Maximilian, Zacharias, Helena U., Oefner, Peter J. , Spang, Rainer und Gronwald, Wolfram (2026) Metabodeconplus—An R Package for Automated Deconvolution and Alignment of 1D NMR Metabolomics Data. Metabolites 16 (9), S. 604.

DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.80571


Zusammenfassung

Background: In one-dimensional NMR spectra of complex biofluids such as urine and plasma, extensive signal overlap obscures individual metabolite signals. Resolving this overlap by deconvolution is only the first step: turning a set of spectra into a table for subsequent statistical analysis also requires the alignment of signals across samples and their integration into a single feature matrix. ...

Background: In one-dimensional NMR spectra of complex biofluids such as urine and plasma, extensive signal overlap obscures individual metabolite signals. Resolving this overlap by deconvolution is only the first step: turning a set of spectra into a table for subsequent statistical analysis also requires the alignment of signals across samples and their integration into a single feature matrix.
Methods: Here, metabodeconplus is presented, an R package that unifies this entire path into a single reproducible end-to-end workflow. From raw one-dimensional spectra, it deconvolutes overlapping signals, aligns resulting signals across samples, and integrates them into a data matrix for built-in sample classification or downstream statistical analysis. Automated parameter optimization removes manual tuning, and a Rust computational backend with parallelization leads to fast runtimes. Results: On the simulated Sim3 spectra, a combined score of correctly identified signals and reconstruction accuracy (maximum 1) rose from 0.712 for the predecessor package to 0.801 for metabodeconplus. For the urinary AKI dataset, metabodeconplus reached a classification accuracy of 73.7 ± 2.20% and an AUC=0.827±0.025, which is comparable to the binning baseline. An advantage is the potential unambiguous metabolite assignment of the deconvoluted signals. Conclusions: The package is freely available as open source on GitHub and on CRAN.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftMetabolites
VerlagMDPI
Open Access ArtGold (mit APC - bezahlt UR)
Band16
Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels9
SeitenbereichS. 604
Datum24 August 2026
Veröffentlichungsdatum03 Sep 2026 05:20
InstitutionenMedizin > Institut für Funktionelle Genomik > Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Genomik (Prof. Oefner)
Medizin > Institut für Funktionelle Genomik > Lehrstuhl für Statistische Bioinformatik (Prof. Spang)
Informatik und Data Science > Fachbereich Bioinformatik > Lehrstuhl für Statistische Bioinformatik (Prof. Spang)
Projekte
Gefördert von: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (509149993)
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WertTyp
10.3390/metabo16090604DOI
Stichwörter / Keywords1D NMR; deconvolution; metabolites; quantification; R package; signal identification
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke > 004 Informatik
600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenZum Teil
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-805713
Dokumenten-ID80571

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