Statistical analysis in metabolic phenotyping

Benjamin J. Blaise, Gonçalo D. S. Correia, Gordon A. Haggart, Izabella Surowiec, Caroline Sands, Matthew R. Lewis, Jake T. M. Pearce, Johan Trygg, Jeremy K. Nicholson, Elaine Holmes, Timothy M. D. Ebbels

Published: 2021-07-27 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-021-00579-1

Metabolic phenotyping

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Biomarker selection

Data normalization

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Metabolic phenotyping is an important tool in translational biomedical research. The advanced analytical technologies commonly used for phenotyping, including mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, generate complex data
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