Robust volcano plot: identification of differential metabolites in the presence of outliers

Robust volcano plot: identification of differential metabolites in the presence of outliers

Abstract Background The identification of differential metabolites in metabolomics is still a big challenge and plays a prominent role in metabolomics data analyses. Metabolomics datasets often contain outliers because of analytical, experimental, and biological ambiguity, but the currently availabl...

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Main Authors: Nishith Kumar, Md. Aminul Hoque, Masahiro Sugimoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-04-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Subjects:
Metabolomics
Differential metabolites
Fold change
Classical volcano plot
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-018-2117-2

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