Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (Jan 2023)

KODAMA exploratory analysis in metabolic phenotyping

  • Maria Mgella Zinga,
  • Maria Mgella Zinga,
  • Ebtesam Abdel-Shafy,
  • Ebtesam Abdel-Shafy,
  • Tadele Melak,
  • Tadele Melak,
  • Alessia Vignoli,
  • Alessia Vignoli,
  • Silvano Piazza,
  • Luiz Fernando Zerbini,
  • Leonardo Tenori,
  • Leonardo Tenori,
  • Stefano Cacciatore,
  • Stefano Cacciatore

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2022.1070394
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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KODAMA is a valuable tool in metabolomics research to perform exploratory analysis. The advanced analytical technologies commonly used for metabolic phenotyping, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy push out a bunch of high-dimensional data. These complex datasets necessitate tailored statistical analysis able to highlight potentially interesting patterns from a noisy background. Hence, the visualization of metabolomics data for exploratory analysis revolves around dimensionality reduction. KODAMA excels at revealing local structures in high-dimensional data, such as metabolomics data. KODAMA has a high capacity to detect different underlying relationships in experimental datasets and correlate extracted features with accompanying metadata. Here, we describe the main application of KODAMA exploratory analysis in metabolomics research.

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