Motivation

1H-NMR metabolomics is rapidly becoming a standard resource in large epidemiological studies to acquire metabolic profiles in large numbers of samples in a relatively low-priced and standardized manner. Concomitantly, metabolomics-based models are increasingly developed that capture disease risk or clinical risk factors. These developments raise the need for user-friendly toolbox to inspect new 1H-NMR metabolomics data and project a wide array of previously established risk models.

Results

We present MiMIR (Metabolomics-based Models for Imputing Risk), a graphical user interface that provides an intuitive framework for ad hoc statistical analysis of Nightingale Health’s 1H-NMR metabolomics data and allows for the projection and calibration of 24 pre-trained metabolomics-based models, without any pre-required programming knowledge.

Availability and implementation

The R-shiny package is available in CRAN or downloadable at https://github.com/DanieleBizzarri/MiMIR, together with an extensive user manual (also available as Supplementary Documents to the article).

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press.

Overview publication

TitleMiMIR: R-shiny application to infer risk factors and endpoints from Nightingale Health’s 1H-NMR metabolomics data.
DateAugust 2nd, 2022
Issue nameBioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Issue numberv38.15:3847-3849
DOI10.1093/bioinformatics/btac388
PubMed35695757
AuthorsBizzarri D, Reinders MJT, Beekman M, Slagboom PE & van den Akker EB
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