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METLIN-MRM/XCMS-MRM

MRM transition library for lipids and small molecules

Description

METLIN-MRM (http://metlin.scripps.edu/), is a public multiple-reaction monitoring (MRM) transition repository for small-molecule quantitative tandem mass spectrometry. This platform provides MRM transitions for thousands of molecular standards and facilitates data sharing across different instruments and laboratories. It is coupled with XCMS-MRM (http://xcmsonline-mrm.scripps.edu/) to facilitate targeted lipidomic and metabolomic analyses. METLIN-MRM library is a compendium of small-molecule transitions for MRM MS. Three different types of transitions are available: (i) traditional experimentally optimized (EO) transitions, (ii) computationally optimized (CO) experimental transitions and (iii) public repository (PR) transitions. . XCMS-MRM focuses on the information from all the transitions for a given compound and uses this information to detect the peak of interest efficiently. Unimodality through an isotonic regression is applied to the final chromatographic-peak profile to improve the quality of the extracted peak, to ensure that only one peak is integrated and thus minimize the interference of noise and low-concentration and co-eluted peaks.

Technical Information

Publications:
PMID:30150755
Source code repository:
NA
Programming languages:
Python,
PHP,
HTML,
CSS,
Javascript,
jQuery
Platforms:
Windows,
Linux,
MacOS
Output formats:
Excel,
HTML(incl. images)
Input formats:
Excel,
CSV,
mzXML,
mzData,
mzData.XML,
netCDF,
CDF,
.wiff(SCIEX),
.wiff.scan(SCIEX)
Web platform:
Yes
Desktop client:
No
CLI:
No
GUI:
Yes
License:
GPL & MIT (academic) / commercial license (commercial use)

Tasks

3) Analysis of targeted lipidomics datasets (SRM, MRM, PRM)
Workflow integration:
METLIN Database
Other features:
NA
Spectra annotation:
Yes
Scores:
Internal XCMS score
Interactive analysis and visualization support:
Yes
Quantification:
Relative and absolute (Support building calibration curves)
Peak detection and alignment:
By XCMS-MRM module
Algorithms:
METLIN-MRM provide optimized MRM transitions for acquisition, and XCMS-MRM use the data for targeted analysis
Transitions for different collision energies available:
Yes
Public repository transitions:
1,500 molecules
Computationally optimized transitions:
Over 15,000
Experimentally optimized transitions:
1000
Number of transitions in the database:
32,347
Covered lipid sub classes:
8 out of 8 LIPID MAPS categories
Strategies:
SRM,
MRM