Raymond G Cavalcante1, Snehal Patil1, Terry E Weymouth1, Kestutis G Bendinskas2, Alla Karnovsky1, Maureen A Sartor3. 1. Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. 2. Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126, USA. 3. Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Abstract
MOTIVATION: Capabilities in the field of metabolomics have grown tremendously in recent years. Many existing resources contain the chemical properties and classifications of commonly identified metabolites. However, the annotation of small molecules (both endogenous and synthetic) to meaningful biological pathways and concepts still lags behind the analytical capabilities and the chemistry-based annotations. Furthermore, no tools are available to visually explore relationships and networks among functionally related groups of metabolites (biomedical concepts). Such a tool would provide the ability to establish testable hypotheses regarding links among metabolic pathways, cellular processes, phenotypes and diseases. RESULTS: Here we present ConceptMetab, an interactive web-based tool for mapping and exploring the relationships among 16 069 biologically defined metabolite sets developed from Gene Ontology, KEGG and Medical Subject Headings, using both KEGG and PubChem compound identifiers, and based on statistical tests for association. We demonstrate the utility of ConceptMetab with multiple scenarios, showing it can be used to identify known and potentially novel relationships among metabolic pathways, cellular processes, phenotypes and diseases, and provides an intuitive interface for linking compounds to their molecular functions and higher level biological effects. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: http://conceptmetab.med.umich.edu CONTACTS: akarnovsky@umich.edu or sartorma@umich.edu SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
MOTIVATION: Capabilities in the field of metabolomics have grown tremendously in recent years. Many existing resources contain the chemical properties and classifications of commonly identified metabolites. However, the annotation of small molecules (both endogenous and synthetic) to meaningful biological pathways and concepts still lags behind the analytical capabilities and the chemistry-based annotations. Furthermore, no tools are available to visually explore relationships and networks among functionally related groups of metabolites (biomedical concepts). Such a tool would provide the ability to establish testable hypotheses regarding links among metabolic pathways, cellular processes, phenotypes and diseases. RESULTS: Here we present ConceptMetab, an interactive web-based tool for mapping and exploring the relationships among 16 069 biologically defined metabolite sets developed from Gene Ontology, KEGG and Medical Subject Headings, using both KEGG and PubChem compound identifiers, and based on statistical tests for association. We demonstrate the utility of ConceptMetab with multiple scenarios, showing it can be used to identify known and potentially novel relationships among metabolic pathways, cellular processes, phenotypes and diseases, and provides an intuitive interface for linking compounds to their molecular functions and higher level biological effects. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: http://conceptmetab.med.umich.edu CONTACTS: akarnovsky@umich.edu or sartorma@umich.edu SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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