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Metabolite-based clustering and visualization of mass spectrometry data using one-dimensional self-organizing maps

Peter Meinicke1 email, Thomas Lingner1 email, Alexander Kaever1 email, Kirstin Feussner2 email, Cornelia Göbel3 email, Ivo Feussner3 email, Petr Karlovsky4 email and Burkhard Morgenstern1 email

Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Department of Developmental Biochemistry, Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Department for Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Molecular Phytopathology and Mycotoxin Research Unit, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2008, 3:9doi:10.1186/1748-7188-3-9

Published: 26 June 2008

Additional files


Additional file 1:

Movie of the annealing process during clustering. The file cluster_process_33nodes.mpg contains a movie that shows the annealing process during clustering of the experimental data used in our case study. The annealing schedule realizes an exponential decrease of the smoothing parameter σ over 100 steps. The initial value is σmax = 100 and the final value is σmin = 0.1.

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Additional file 2:

List of MarkerLynx™ parameters. The data file MarkerLynxParameters.xls contains an Microsoft® Excel table with parameters that were used for data preprocessing with MarkerLynx™.

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Additional file 3:

Table of marker candidates used in the case study. The data file dataset837.csv contains the marker candidates used for clustering and visualization. Rows correspond to particular marker candidates. The first column corresponds to marker candidate ID, the second and third column represent cluster ID and block ID according to table 2, respectively. The block IDs A, B, C, D, E and F are encoded by integers 1,..., 6. Columns 4 and 5 correspond to experimental nominal mass (m/z) and retention time (minutes), respectively. Columns 6 to 77 contain intensity values from mass spectrometry measurements. Here, nine successive values correspond to replicas of a particular experimental condition (see section "Case study for experimental evaluation"). The intensity values are ordered according to successive replicas for each condition (order of conditions according to table 1).

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