Journal
FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.1026184
Keywords
metabolomics; quality assurance; quality control; mass spectrometry; analytical chemistry
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- Strategic Focal Area Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT)
- ETH Zurich
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The broad coverage of untargeted metabolomics poses challenges for measurement harmonization over time. To address this, researchers propose a system suitability testing platform for time-of-flight mass spectrometers. The platform can verify instrument performance before sample injection and offers various applications.
The broad coverage of untargeted metabolomics poses fundamental challenges for the harmonization of measurements along time, even if they originate from the very same instrument. Internal isotopic standards can hardly cover the chemical complexity of study samples. Therefore, they are insufficient for normalizing data a posteriori as done for targeted metabolomics. Instead, it is crucial to verify instrument's performance a priori, that is, before samples are injected. Here, we propose a system suitability testing platform for time-offlight mass spectrometers independent of liquid chromatography. It includes a chemically defined quality control mixture, a fast acquisition method, software for extracting ca. 3,000 numerical features from profile data, and a simple web service for monitoring. We ran a pilot for 21 months and present illustrative results for anomaly detection or learning causal relationships between the spectral features and machine settings. Beyond mere detection of anomalies, our results highlight several future applications such as 1) recommending instrument retuning strategies to achieve desired values of quality indicators, 2) driving preventive maintenance, and 3) using the obtained, detailed spectral features for posterior data harmonization.
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