Software and Tools

Databases, tools and software developed and hosted by the West Coast Metabolomics Center

For other tools, check out 'resources' in the Metabolomics Association of North America website!

Tool Purpose Year public Publication
Flash entropy search to exploit large spectral libraries with little memory overhead for any mass spectrometry laboratory. 2023 Nature Methods (2023)
The BinDiscover database  to enable intuitive, rapid hypothesis generation for biologists based on these metabolomic samples.  2023 Journal of Cheminformatics (2023)
MS/MS spectral entropy similarity to reduce the number of false positives when performing MS/MS library searches 2021 Nature Methods (2021)
Metabolome atlas of the aging mouse brain to build a background database for 1,547 identified compounds in 10 brain microdissection of 3 to 92 weeks old mice 2021 Nature Communications (2021)
Blood Exposome DB to build a database for all chemicals that are reported in literature as detected in blood 2019 Environmental Health Perspectives (2019)
Systematic Error Removal by Random Forest (SERRF) to normalize metabolomic and lipidomic data sets using QC pool samples 2019 Analytical Chemistry (2019)
Chemical Translation Service(CTS) batch query for chemical names to DB identifiers 
across 200 DBs
2010 Bioinformatics (2010) 26(20):2647
MassBank of North America(MoNA) integration of all freely available mass spectra, 
structures and metadata (> 640,000 spectra)
2015

Analytical Chemistry. (2016) 88(16):7946

Spectral Hash Key 
(SPLASH)
online resource to create spectral identifiers, 
for MS library and DB exchanges
2016 Nature Biotechnology (2016) 
34(11):1099
LipidBlast lipidomic ID, classes, templates, m/z lookups, 
MS/MS downloads, web search, MS/MS batch scores
2013 Nature Methods (2013);
10(8):755
MS-Feature List Optimizer(MS-FLO) to clean up errors from MS data processing 
(MZmine, XCMS, MS-DIAL), including isotopes, 
doublets and adducts
2016 Analytical Chemistry 89.6 
(2017): 3250
miniX (access with login)
source code
study design database as foundation for all WCMC 
studies, for biological species, organ, treatment data
2006 Pacific Symp. Biocomputing (2007): 169

BinVestigate

query of unknown GC/MS spectra against BinBase, the WCMC DB with 8,000 metabolites from 1600 studies, 110,000 samples 2017 Nature Methods (2018) 15: 53
MS2Analyzer Executable program download with tutorials; to analyze 
MS/MS spectra for neutral loss, product ion rules
2014 Analytical Chemistry 86.21 (2014): 10724
Seven Golden Rules Executable program download with tutorials; to 
calculate elemental formulas by accurate mass, isotopes
2007 BMC Bioinformatics (2007) 8(1):105
MetaBox R-based tool box for data normalization, statistics, 
pathway analysis with MetaMapp
2016 PloS ONE (2017) 12(1):e0171046
MetaMapp Chemical and biochemical mapping of metabolomics datasets 2012 BMC Bioinformatics (2012) 13(1):99
ChemRICH R-based comprehensive chemical clustering tool 
for Chemical Enrichment Analysis as alternative 
to metabolic pathway analysis
2017 Scientific Reports (2017) 
 
ClassyFire batch Online service to return chemical compound classes for lists of InChI key identifiers, based on the Yannick Djoumbou Feunang's algorithm (Wishart lab) 2017 J. Cheminformatics (2016),
8(1): 61
MS-DIAL 2.0 Software for data dependent and data independent
LC-MS/MS and GC-MS data processing. 
Developed by Dr Hiroshi Tsugawa and Prof Masanori
Arita in collaboration with the Fiehn laboratory
2014
2017
Nature Methods (2015),
1;12(6):523
MS-FINDER 2.0 Software for virtual mass spectra predictions from structure 
using bond energies, H-rearrangements, heuristic rules for 
LC-MS/MS and GC-MS spectra. 
Developed by Dr Hiroshi Tsugawa and Prof Masanori
Arita in collaboration with the Fiehn laboratory
2015
2017
Analytical Chemistry (2016), 88(16):7946

 

Specific WCMC data dictionaries and standard operating protocols (SOPs)

data dictionary lipidomics

SOP biofluid extraction lipidomics  
SOP data acquisition lipidomics   
SOP data processing lipidomics

data dictionary primary metabolomics

SOP biofluid extraction primary metabolism 
SOP data acquisition primary metabolites   
SOP data processing primary metabolites

data dictionary biogenic amines / specialized metabolites

SOP biofluid extraction biogenic amines / specialized metabolites
SOP biofluid data acquisition biogenic amines / specialized metabolites
SOP biofluid data processing biogenic amines / specialized metabolites

data dictionary bile acids

SOP bile acids

data dictionary eicosanoids

SOP eicosanoids

data dictionary steroids

SOP steroids

data dictionary flux analysis

SOP flux analysis