Data Processing Thresholds for Abundance and Sparsity and Missed Biological Insights in an Untargeted Chemical Analysis of Blood Specimens for Exposomics

Background: An untargeted chemical analysis of bio-fluids provides semi-quantitative data for thousands of chemicals for expanding our understanding about relationships among metabolic pathways, diseases, phenotypes and exposures. During the processing of mass spectral and chromatography data, vario...

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Main Authors: Dinesh Kumar Barupal, Sadjad Fakouri Baygi, Robert O. Wright, Manish Arora
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.653599/full