| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1162745 | Analytica Chimica Acta | 2016 | 9 Pages |
•We present the software-assisted serum metabolite quantification (SASMeQ) method for NMR-based metabolic profiling.•SASMeQ integrated Chenomx and ERETIC2 software for quantification of serum metabolites.•SASMeQ provides an accurate and reliable method for absolute quantification.
The goal of metabolomics is to analyze a whole metabolome under a given set of conditions, and accurate and reliable quantitation of metabolites is crucial. Absolute concentration is more valuable than relative concentration; however, the most commonly used method in NMR-based serum metabolic profiling, bin-based and full data point peak quantification, provides relative concentration levels of metabolites and are not reliable when metabolite peaks overlap in a spectrum. In this study, we present the software-assisted serum metabolite quantification (SASMeQ) method, which allows us to identify and quantify metabolites in NMR spectra using Chenomx software. This software uses the ERETIC2 utility from TopSpin to add a digitally synthesized peak to a spectrum. The SASMeQ method will advance NMR-based serum metabolic profiling by providing an accurate and reliable method for absolute quantification that is superior to bin-based quantification.
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