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VOCCluster: Untargeted Metabolomics Feature Clustering Approach for Clinical Breath Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry Data

18 February 2019, Version 1
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Abstract

Our unsupervised clustering technique, VOCCluster, prototyped in Python, handles features of deconvolved GC-MS breath data. VOCCluster was created from a heuristic ontology based on the observation of experts undertaking data processing with a suite of software packages. VOCCluster identifies and clusters groups of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from deconvolved GC-MS breath with similar mass spectra and retention index profiles.

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Breath analysis
data processing tool

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VOCCluster: Untargeted Metabolomics Feature Clustering Approach for Clinical Breath Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Data [opens in a new tab]
Yaser Alkhalifah, Iain Phillips, Andrea Soltoggio, Kareen Darnley, William H. Nailon, Duncan McLaren, Michael Eddleston, C. L. Paul Thomas, Dahlia Salman journal article
Analytical Chemistry , Volume 92, Issue 4
Online publication date: Dec 03, 2019

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DOI

10.26434/chemrxiv.7728266.v1
D O I: 10.26434/chemrxiv.7728266.v1 [opens in a new tab]

Funding

The authors of this manuscript would like to acknowledge the TOXI-triage project and the clinical research nurse and radiotherapy staff for their help with obtaining the clinical data sets. TOXI-triage received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Innovation action Programme H2020- EU.3.7. - Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens under grant agreement No 653409.
The authors would also like to acknowledge ministry of education in Saudi Arabia for funding the first author to undertake his PhD at the Loughborough University. .

Author’s competing interest statement

No conflict of interest declared

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