Introduction

Introduction to
Metabolomic Data Analysis

Dmitry Grapov, PhD
Introduction

Important
•This is an introduction to a series
of 8 tutorials for metabolomic data
analysis
•Download all the required files and
software here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/teachingdemos/files/Winter%202014%20LC-MS%20and%20Statistics%20Course/

•Then follow the directions in the
software/startup.R to launch all
accompanying software
Goals?
Analysis at the Metabolomic Scale
Cycle of Scientific Discovery
Hypothesis

Hypothesis Generation

Data Acquisition

Data Processing

Data Analysis

Data
Univariate vs. Multivariate
Multivariate

Predictive Modeling

Group 2

Group 1

Univariate

Hypothesis testing
(t-Test, ANOVA, etc.)

PCA

O-/PLS/-DA
Univariate vs. Multivariate
univariate/bivariate


vs.
multivariate

outliers?
mixed up samples?
Data Analysis Goals
Exploration

Classification

• Are there any trends in my data?
– analytical sources
– meta data/covariates

• Useful Methods
– matrix decomposition (PCA, ICA, NMF)
– cluster analysis

• Differences/similarities between groups?
– discrimination, classification, significant changes

• Useful Methods
– analysis of variance (ANOVA), mixed effects models
– partial least squares discriminant analysis (O-/PLS-DA)
– Others: random forest, CART, SVM, ANN

• What is related or predictive of my variable(s) of interest?
– Regression, correlation

• Useful Methods
– correlation
– partial least squares (O-/PLS)

Prediction
Data Complexity
Meta
Data
m
n

variables

Experimental
Design =
complexity

samples

Data
m-D
1-D 2-D
Variable # = dimensionality
Univariate Qualities
•length (sample size)
•center (mean, median,
geometric mean)
•dispersion (variance,
standard deviation)
•range (min / max),
•quantiles

•shape (skewness, kurtosis,
normality, etc.)

standard deviation
mean
Data Quality
Metrics
• Precision
• Accuracy
Remedies

• normalization
• outliers
detection
*Start lab 1-statistical analysis
Univariate Analyses
•Identify differences in sample population
means
•sensitive to distribution shape
•parametric = assumes normality

•error in Y, not in X (Y = mX + error)

wide

•optimal for long data
•assumed independence
•false discovery rate (FDR)

long

n-of-one
False Discovery Rate (FDR)
Type I Error: False Positives
•Type II Error: False Negatives
•Type I risk =
•1-(1-p.value)m
m = number of variables tested

FDR correction
• p-value adjustment or estimate of FDR (Fdr, q-value)
Bioinformatics (2008) 24 (12):1461-1462
Achieving “significance” is a function of:
significance level (α) and power (1-β )

effect size (standardized difference in means)

sample size (n)

*finish lab
1-statistical analysis
Clustering
Identify
•patterns
•group structure

•relationships
•Evaluate/refine hypothesis

•Reduce complexity

Artist: Chuck Close
Cluster Analysis
Use the concept similarity/dissimilarity
to group a collection of samples or
variables
Linkage
Approaches
•hierarchical (HCA)
•non-hierarchical (k-NN, k-means)
•distribution (mixtures models)
•density (DBSCAN)
•self organizing maps (SOM)

Distribution

k-means

Density
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis
• similarity/dissimilarity
defines “nearness” or
distance
euclidean manhattan Mahalanobis non-euclidean

X

X

X
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Y

Y

Y
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis
Agglomerative/linkage algorithm
defines how points are grouped

single

complete centroid average
Dendrograms

x

x
x

Similarity

x
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis
How does my metadata
match my data structure?

Exploration

*finish lab 2-Cluster Analysis

Confirmation
Projection of Data

The algorithm defines the position of the light source
Principal Components Analysis (PCA)
• unsupervised
• maximize variance (X)
Partial Least Squares Projection to
Latent Structures (PLS)
• supervised
• maximize covariance (Y ~ X)
James X. Li, 2009, VisuMap Tech.
Interpreting PCA Results
Variance explained (eigenvalues)

Row (sample) scores and column (variable) loadings
How are scores and
loadings related?
Centering and Scaling

PMID: 16762068

*finish lab 3-Principal Components Analysis
Use PLS to test a hypothesis
Partial Least Squares (PLS) is used to identify planes of maximum
correlation between X measurements and Y (hypothesis)
PLS

PCA

time = 0

120 min.
Modeling multifactorial
relationships
~two-way ANOVA

dynamic changes among groups
PLS Related Objects
Model
•dimensions, latent variables (LV)
•performance metrics (Q2, RMSEP, etc)
•validation (training/testing, permutation, cross-validation)
•orthogonal correction
Samples
•scores
•predicted values
•residuals
Variables
•Loadings
•Coefficients, summary of loadings based on all LVs
•VIP, variable importance in projection
•Feature selection
“goodness” of the model is all about the
perspective

Determine in-sample (Q2) and outof-sample error (RMSEP) and
compare to a random model
•permutation tests

•training/testing
*finish lab 4-Partial Least Squares and lab 5-Data Analysis Case Study
Biological Interpretation
Projection or mapping of analysis results
into a biological context.
• Visualization
• Enrichment
• Networks
– biochemical
– structural
– spectral
– empirical
Identification of alterations in
biochemical domains
Organism specific biochemical relationships and information
Multiple organism DBs

•KEGG
•BioCyc
•Reactome
•Human
•HMDB

•SMPDB
*finish lab 6-Metabolite Enrichment Analysis
Network Mapping
1. Generate
Connections

2. Calculate
Mappings

3. Create
Network

Grapov D., Fiehn O., Multivariate and network tools for analysis and visualization of metabolomic data, ASMS, June 08, 2013, Minneapolis, MN
Connections and
Contexts
Biochemical (substrate/product)
•Database lookup
•Web query
Chemical (structural or
spectral similarity )
•fingerprint generation
BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13:99 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-13-99

Empirical (dependency)
•correlation, partial-correlation
Mapping Analysis Results
Analysis results

Network Annotation

*finish lab 7-Network Mapping I

Mapped Network
Biochemical
Relationships

http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?rn:R00975
Structural
Similarity

http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov//score_matrix/score_matrix.cgi
Mass Spectral Connections

Watrous J et al. PNAS 2012;109:E1743-E1752

*finish lab 8-Network Mapping II

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