Nature Communications (Apr 2023)

Spatial probabilistic mapping of metabolite ensembles in mass spectrometry imaging

  • Denis Abu Sammour,
  • James L. Cairns,
  • Tobias Boskamp,
  • Christian Marsching,
  • Tobias Kessler,
  • Carina Ramallo Guevara,
  • Verena Panitz,
  • Ahmed Sadik,
  • Jonas Cordes,
  • Stefan Schmidt,
  • Shad A. Mohammed,
  • Miriam F. Rittel,
  • Mirco Friedrich,
  • Michael Platten,
  • Ivo Wolf,
  • Andreas von Deimling,
  • Christiane A. Opitz,
  • Wolfgang Wick,
  • Carsten Hopf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37394-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Spatial visualization of metabolites in tissues via mass spectrometry imaging can be prone to user perception bias. Here, the authors report the computational framework moleculaR that introduces probabilistic data-dependent molecular mapping of nonrandom spatial patterns of metabolite signals.