MWASTools: an R/bioconductor package for metabolome-wide association studies
Author(s) -
Andrea RodriguezMartinez,
Joram M. Posma,
Rafael Ayala,
Ana Luísa Neves,
Maryam Anwar,
Enrico Petretto,
Costanza Emanueli,
Dominique Gauguier,
Jeremy K. Nicholson,
MarcEmmanuel Dumas
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx477
Subject(s) - bioconductor , metabolome , pipeline (software) , computer science , r package , data mining , visualization , statistical model , association (psychology) , software , computational biology , bioinformatics , metabolomics , biology , artificial intelligence , programming language , genetics , philosophy , epistemology , gene
MWASTools is an R package designed to provide an integrated pipeline to analyse metabonomic data in large-scale epidemiological studies. Key functionalities of our package include: quality control analysis; metabolome-wide association analysis using various models (partial correlations, generalized linear models); visualization of statistical outcomes; metabolite assignment using statistical total correlation spectroscopy (STOCSY); and biological interpretation of metabolome-wide association studies results.
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