Chapter 7 Annotation

When you get the peaks table or features table, annotation of the peaks would help you. Check this review(Domingo-Almenara, Montenegro-Burke, Benton, et al. 2018) or other reviews(Chaleckis et al. 2019; Lai et al. 2018; Nash and Dunn 2019; Mark R. Viant et al. 2017; Allard, Genta-Jouve, and Wolfender 2017; Domingo-Almenara, Montenegro-Burke, Benton, et al. 2018) for a detailed notes on annotation. The first paper proposed five levels regarding currently computational annotation strategies.

  • Level 1: Peak Grouping: MS Psedospectra extraction based on peak shape similarity and peak abundance correlation

  • Level 2: Peak Annotation: Adducts, Neutral losses, isotopes, and other mass relationships based on mass distances

  • Level 3: Biochemical knowledge based on putative identification, potential biochemical reaction and related statistical analysis

  • Level 4: Use and integration of tandem MS data based on data dependent/independent acquisition mode or in silico prediction

  • Level 5: Retention time prediction based on library-available retention index or quantitative structure-retention relationships (QSRR) models.

Most of the software are at level 1 or 2. If we only have compounds structure, we could guess ions under different ionization method. If we have mass spectrum, we could match the mass spectral by a similarity analysis to the database. In metabolomics, we only have mass spectrum or mass-to-charge ratios. Single mass-to-charge ratio is not enough for identification. That’s the one bottleneck for annotation. So prediction is always performed on MS/MS data.

7.1 Issues in annotation

The major issue in annotation is the redundancy peaks from same metabolite. Unlike genomes, peaks or features from peak selection are not independent with each other. Adducts, in-source fragments and isotopes would lead to wrong annotation. A common solution is that use known adducts, neutral losses, molecular multimers or multiple charged ions to compare mass distances.

Another issue is about the MS/MS database. Only 10% of known metabolites in databases have experimental spectral data. Thus in silico prediction is required. Some works try to fill the gap between experimental data, theoretical values(from chemical database like chemspider) and prediction together. Here is a nice review about MS/MS prediction(Hufsky, Scheubert, and Böcker 2014).

7.2 Peak misidentification

  • Isomer

Use separation methods such as chromatography, ion mobility MS, MS/MS. Reversed-phase ion-pairing chromatography and HILIC is useful. Chemical derivatization is another option.

  • Interfering compounds

20ppm is the least exact mass accuracy for HRMS.

  • In-source degradation products

7.3 Annotation v.s. identification

According to the definition from the Chemical Analysis Working Group of the Metabolomics Standards Intitvative(Lloyd W. Sumner et al. 2007; Mark R. Viant et al. 2017). Four levels of confidence could be assigned to identification:

  • Level 1 ‘identified metabolites’
  • Level 2 ‘Putatively annotated compounds’
  • Level 3 ‘Putatively characterised compound classes’
  • Level 4 ‘Unknown’

In practice, data analysis based annotation could reach level 2. For level 1, we need at extra methods such as MS/MS, retention time, accurate mass, 2D NMR spectra, and so on to confirm the compounds. However, standards are always required for solid proof.

For specific group of compounds such as PFASs, the communication of confidence level could be slightly different(Charbonnet et al. 2022).

Through MS/MS seemed a required step for identification, recent study found ESI might also generate fragments ions for structure identification (Xue, Guijas, et al. 2020; Xue et al. 2021, 2023; Bernardo-Bermejo et al. 2023).

7.4 Molecular Formula Assignment

Cheminformatics will help for MS annotation. The first task is molecular formula assignment. For a given accurate mass, the formula should be constrained by predefined element type and atom number, mass error window and rules of chemical bonding, such as double bond equivalent (DBE) and the nitrogen rule. The nitrogen rule is that an odd nominal molecular mass implies also an odd number of nitrogen. This rule should only be used with nominal (integer) masses. Degree of unsaturation or DBE use rings-plus-double-bonds equivalent (RDBE) values, which should be interger. The elements oxygen and sulphur were not taken into account. Otherwise the molecular formula will not be true.

\[RDBE = C+Si - 1/2(H+F+Cl+Br+I) + 1/2(N+P)+1 \]

To assign molecular formula to a mass to charge ratio, Seven Golden Rules (Kind and Fiehn 2007) for heuristic filtering of molecular formulas should be considered:

  • Apply heuristic restrictions for number of elements during formula generation. This is the table for known compounds:
##   Mass.Range.[Da] Library C.max H.max N.max O.max P.max S.max F.max Cl.max
## 1           < 500     DNP    29    72    10    18     4     7    15      8
## 2            <NA>   Wiley    39    72    20    20     9    10    16     10
## 3          < 1000     DNP    66   126    25    27     6     8    16     11
## 4            <NA>   Wiley    78   126    20    27     9    14    34     12
## 5          < 2000     DNP   115   236    32    63     6     8    16     11
## 6            <NA>   Wiley   156   180    20    40     9    14    48     12
## 7          < 3000     DNP   162   208    48    78     6     9    16     11
##   Br.max Si.max
## 1      5     NA
## 2      4      8
## 3      8     NA
## 4      8     14
## 5      8     NA
## 6     10     15
## 7      8     NA
  • Perform LEWIS and SENIOR check. The LEWIS rule demands that molecules consisting of main group elements, especially carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, share electrons in a way that all atoms have completely filled s, p-valence shells (‘octet rule’). Senior’s theorem requires three essential conditions for the existence of molecular graphs

    • The sum of valences or the total number of atoms having odd valences is even;

    • The sum of valences is greater than or equal to twice the maximum valence;

    • The sum of valences is greater than or equal to twice the number of atoms minus 1.

  • Perform isotopic pattern filter. Isotope ratio abundance was included in the algorithm as an additional orthogonal constraint, assuming high quality data acquisitions, specifically sufficient ion statistics and high signal/noise ratio for the detection of the M+1 and M+2 abundances. For monoisotopic elements (F, Na, P, I) this rule has no impact. isotope pattern will be useful for brominated, chlorinated small molecules and sulphur-containing peptides.

  • Perform H/C ratio check (hydrogen/carbon ratio). In most cases the hydrogen/carbon ratio does not exceed H/C > 3 with rare exception such as in methylhydrazine (CH6N2). Conversely, the H/C ratio is usually smaller than 2, and should not be less than 0.125 like in the case of tetracyanopyrrole (C8HN5).

  • Perform NOPS ratio check (N, O, P, S/C ratios).

##   Element.ratios Common.range.(covering.99.7%) Extended.range.(covering.99.99%)
## 1            H/C                       0.2–3.1                            0.1–6
## 2            F/C                         0–1.5                              0–6
## 3           Cl/C                         0–0.8                              0–2
## 4           Br/C                         0–0.8                              0–2
## 5            N/C                         0–1.3                              0–4
## 6            O/C                         0–1.2                              0–3
## 7            P/C                         0–0.3                              0–2
## 8            S/C                         0–0.8                              0–3
## 9           Si/C                         0–0.5                              0–1
##   Extreme.range.(beyond.99.99%)
## 1                 < 0.1 and 6–9
## 2                         > 1.5
## 3                         > 0.8
## 4                         > 0.8
## 5                         > 1.3
## 6                         > 1.2
## 7                         > 0.3
## 8                         > 0.8
## 9                         > 0.5
  • Perform heuristic HNOPS probability check (H, N, O, P, S/C high probability ratios)
df <- data.frame(
                stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
                  Element.counts = c("NOPS all > 1","NOP all > 3","OPS all > 1",
                                     "PSN all > 1","NOS all > 6"),
                  Heuristic.Rule = c("N< 10, O < 20, P < 4, S < 3",
                                     "N < 11, O < 22, P < 6","O < 14, P < 3, S < 3",
                                     "P < 3, S < 3, N < 4","N < 19 O < 14 S < 8"),
  DB.examples.for.maximum.values = c("C15H34N9O8PS, C22H44N4O14P2S2, C24H38N7O19P3S","C20H28N10O21P4, C10H18N5O20P5",
                                     "C22H44N4O14P2S2, C16H36N4O4P2S2",
                                     "C22H44N4O14P2S2, C16H36N4O4P2S2","C59H64N18O14S7")
)
df
##   Element.counts              Heuristic.Rule
## 1   NOPS all > 1 N< 10, O < 20, P < 4, S < 3
## 2    NOP all > 3       N < 11, O < 22, P < 6
## 3    OPS all > 1        O < 14, P < 3, S < 3
## 4    PSN all > 1         P < 3, S < 3, N < 4
## 5    NOS all > 6         N < 19 O < 14 S < 8
##                  DB.examples.for.maximum.values
## 1 C15H34N9O8PS, C22H44N4O14P2S2, C24H38N7O19P3S
## 2                 C20H28N10O21P4, C10H18N5O20P5
## 3               C22H44N4O14P2S2, C16H36N4O4P2S2
## 4               C22H44N4O14P2S2, C16H36N4O4P2S2
## 5                                C59H64N18O14S7
  • Perform TMS check (for GC-MS if a silylation step is involved). For TMS derivatized molecules detected in GC/MS analyses, the rules on element ratio checks and valence tests are hence best applied after TMS groups are subtracted, in a similar manner as adducts need to be first recognized and subtracted in LC/MS analyses.

Seven Golden Rules were built for GC-MS and Hydrogen Rearrangement Rules were major designed for LC-CID-MS/MS(Tsugawa et al. 2016). Based on extensively curated database records and enthalpy calculations, “hydrogen rearrangement (HR) rules” could be extending the even-electron rule for carbon (C) and heteroatoms, oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and sulfur (S). They used high abundance MS/MS peaks that exceeded 10% of their base peaks to identify common features in terms of 4 HR rules for positive mode and 5 HR rules for negative mode.

Seven Golden Rules and Hydrogen Rearrangement Rules might also be captured by statistical models. However, such heuristic rules could reduce the searching space of possible formula.

molgen generating all structures (connectivity isomers, constitutions) that correspond to a given molecular formula, with optional further restrictions, e.g. presence or absence of particular substructures (Gugisch et al. 2015).

mfFinder can predict formula based on accurate mass (Patiny and Borel 2013).

RAMSI is the robust automated mass spectra interpretation and chemical formula calculation method using mixed integer linear programming optimization (Baran and Northen 2013).

Here is some other Cheminformatics tools, which could be used to assign meaningful formula or structures for mass spectra.

  • RDKit Open-Source Cheminformatics Software
  • cdk The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) is a scientific, LGPL-ed library for bio- and cheminformatics and computational chemistry written in Java (Guha 2007).
  • Open Babel Open Babel is a chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data (O’Boyle et al. 2011).
  • ClassyFire is a tool for automated chemical classification with a comprehensive, computable taxonomy (Djoumbou Feunang et al. 2016).
  • BUDDY can perform molecular formula discovery via bottom-up MS/MS interrogation(Xing et al. 2023).

7.5 Redundant peaks

Full scan mass spectra always contain lots of redundant peaks such as adducts, isotope, fragments, multiple charged ions and other oligomers. Such peaks dominated the features table(Xu, Lu, and Rabinowitz 2015; Sindelar and Patti 2020; Mahieu and Patti 2017). Annotation tools could label those peaks either by known list or frequency analysis of the paired mass distances(Ju et al. 2020; Kouřil et al. 2020).

7.5.1 Adducts list

You could find adducts list here from commonMZ project.

7.5.2 Isotope

Here is Isotope pattern prediction.

7.5.3 CAMERA

Common annotation for xcms workflow(Kuhl et al. 2012).

7.5.4 RAMClustR

The software could be found here (C. D. Broeckling et al. 2014; Corey D. Broeckling et al. 2016). The package included a vignette to follow.

7.5.5 BioCAn

BioCAn combines the results from database searches and in silico fragmentation analyses and places these results into a relevant biological context for the sample as captured by a metabolic model (Alden et al. 2017).

7.5.6 mzMatch

mzMatch is a modular, open source and platform independent data processing pipeline for metabolomics LC/MS data written in the Java language. (Chokkathukalam et al. 2013; Scheltema et al. 2011) and MetAssign is a probabilistic annotation method using a Bayesian clustering approach, which is part of mzMatch(Daly et al. 2014).

7.5.7 xMSannotator

The software could be found here(Uppal, Walker, and Jones 2017).

7.5.8 mWise

mWise is an Algorithm for Context-Based Annotation of Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Features through Diffusion in Graphs(Barranco-Altirriba et al. 2021).

7.5.9 MAIT

You could find source code here(Fernández-Albert et al. 2014).

7.5.10 pmd

Paired Mass Distance(PMD) analysis for GC/LC-MS based nontarget analysis to remove redundant peaks(M. Yu, Olkowicz, and Pawliszyn 2019).

7.5.11 nontarget

nontarget could find Isotope & adduct peak grouping, and perform homologue series detection (Loos and Singer 2017).

7.5.12 Binner

Binner Deep annotation of untargeted LC-MS metabolomics data (Kachman et al. 2020)

7.5.13 mz.unity

You could find source code here (Mahieu et al. 2016) and it’s for detecting and exploring complex relationships in accurate-mass mass spectrometry data.

7.5.14 MS-FLO

ms-flo A Tool To Minimize False Positive Peak Reports in Untargeted Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectroscopy (LC-MS) Data Processing (DeFelice et al. 2017).

7.5.15 CliqueMS

CliqueMS is a computational tool for annotating in-source metabolite ions from LC-MS untargeted metabolomics data based on a coelution similarity network (Senan et al. 2019).

7.5.16 InterpretMSSpectrum

This package is for annotate and interpret deconvoluted mass spectra (mass*intensity pairs) from high resolution mass spectrometry devices. You could use this package to find molecular ions for GC-MS (Jaeger et al. 2016).

7.5.17 NetID

NetID is a global network optimization approach to annotate untargeted LC-MS metabolomics data(L. Chen et al. 2021).

7.5.18 ISfrag

De Novo Recognition of In-Source Fragments for Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Data(J. Guo et al. 2021)

7.5.19 FastEI

Ultra-fast and accurate electron ionization mass spectrum matching for compound identification with million-scale in-silico library(Qiong Yang et al. 2023)

7.6 MS1 MS2 connection

7.6.1 PMDDA

Three step workflow: MS1 full scan peak-picking, GlobalStd algorithm to select precursor ions for MS2 from MS1 data and collect the MS2 data and annotation with GNPS(M. Yu, Dolios, and Petrick 2022).

7.6.2 HERMES

A molecular-formula-oriented method to target the metabolome(Giné et al. 2021).

7.6.3 dpDDA

Similar work can be found here with inclusion list of differential and preidentified ions (dpDDA)(Y. Zhang et al. 2023).

7.7 MS2 MSn connection

A computational approach to generate adatabase of high-resolution-MS n spectra by converting existing low-resolution MSn spectra using complementary high-resolution-MS2 spectra generated by beam-type CAD(Lieng et al. 2023).

7.8 MS/MS annotation

MS/MS annotation is performed to generate a matching score with library spectra. The most popular matching algorithm is dot product similarity. A recent study found spectral entropy algorithm outperformed dot product similarity [Y. Li et al. (2021);Y. Li and Fiehn (2023);]. Comparison of Cosine, Modified Cosine, and Neutral Loss Based Spectrum Alignment showed modified cosine similarity outperformed neutral loss matching and the cosine similarity in all cases. The performance of MS/MS spectrum alignment depends on the location and type of the modification, as well as the chemical compound class of fragmented molecules(Bittremieux et al. 2022). This work proposed a method weighting low-intensity MS/MS ions and m/z frequency for spectral library annotation, which will be help to annotate unknown spectra(Engler Hart et al. 2024). BLINK enables ultrafast tandem mass spectrometry cosine similarity scoring(Harwood et al. 2023). MS2Query enable the reliable and scalable MS2 mass spectra-based analogue search by machine learning(de Jonge et al. 2023). However, A spectroscopic test suggests that fragment ion structure annotations in MS/MS libraries are frequently incorrect(van Tetering et al. 2024).

Machine learning can also be applied for MS2 annotation(Codrean et al. 2023; H. Guo et al. 2023; Bilbao et al. 2023).

You could check \[Workflow\] section for popular platform. Here are some stand-alone annotation software:

7.8.1 Matchms

Matchms is an open-source Python package to import, process, clean, and compare mass spectrometry data (MS/MS). It allows to implement and run an easy-to-follow, easy-to-reproduce workflow from raw mass spectra to pre- and post-processed spectral data. Spectral data can be imported from common formats such mzML, mzXML, msp, metabolomics-USI, MGF, or json (e.g. GNPS-syle json files). Matchms then provides filters for metadata cleaning and checking, as well as for basic peak filtering. Finally, matchms was build to import and apply different similarity measures to compare large amounts of spectra. This includes common Cosine scores, but can also easily be extended by custom measures. Example for spectrum similarity measures that were designed to work in matchms are Spec2Vec and MS2DeepScore(Huber et al. 2020).

7.8.2 MetDNA

MetDNA is the Metabolic reaction network-based recursive metabolite annotation for untargeted metabolomics (Shen et al. 2019).

7.8.3 MetFusion

Java based integration of compound identification strategies. You could access the application here (Gerlich and Neumann 2013).

7.8.4 MS2Analyzer

MS2Analyzer could annotate small molecule substructure from accurate tandem mass spectra. (Ma et al. 2014)

7.8.5 MetFrag

MetFrag could be used to make in silico prediction/match of MS/MS data(Ruttkies et al. 2016; Wolf et al. 2010).

7.8.6 CFM-ID

CFM-ID use Metlin’s data to make prediction (Allen et al. 2014) and 4.0 (Allen et al. 2014).

7.8.7 LC-MS2Struct

A machine learning framework for structural annotation of small-molecule data arising from liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS2) measurements.(Bach, Schymanski, and Rousu 2022)

7.8.8 LipidFrag

LipidFrag could be used to make in silico prediction/match of lipid related MS/MS data (Witting et al. 2017).

7.8.9 Lipidmatch

in silico: in silico lipid mass spectrum search (Koelmel et al. 2017).

7.8.10 BarCoding

Bar coding select mass-to-charge regions containing the most informative metabolite fragments and designate them as bins. Then translate each metabolite fragmentation pattern into a binary code by assigning 1’s to bins containing fragments and 0’s to bins without fragments. Such coding annotation could be used for MRM data (Spalding et al. 2016).

7.8.11 iMet

This online application is a network-based computation method for annotation (Aguilar-Mogas et al. 2017).

7.8.12 DNMS2Purifier

XGBoost based MS/MS spectral cleaning tool using intensity ratio fluctuation, appearance rate, and relative intensity(T. Zhao et al. 2023).

7.8.13 IDSL.CSA

Composite Spectra Analysis for Chemical Annotation of Untargeted Metabolomics Datasets(Baygi, Kumar, and Barupal 2023).

7.9 Knowledge based annotation

7.9.1 Experimental design

Physicochemical Property can be used for annotation with a specific experimental design(Abrahamsson et al. 2023).

7.9.3 ProbMetab

Provides probability ranking to candidate compounds assigned to masses, with the prior assumption of connected sample and additional previous and spectral information modeled by the user. You could find source code here (Ricardo R. Silva et al. 2014).

7.9.4 MI-Pack

You could find python software here (Weber and Viant 2010).

7.9.5 MetExpert

MetExpert is an expert system to assist users with limited expertise in informatics to interpret GCMS data for metabolite identification without querying spectral databases (Qiu, Lei, and Sumner 2018).

7.9.6 MycompoundID

MycompoundID could be used to search known and unknown metabolites online (Liang Li et al. 2013).

7.9.7 MetFamily

Shiny app for MS and MS/MS data annotation (Treutler et al. 2016).

7.9.8 CoA-Blast

For certain group of compounds such as Acyl-CoA, you might build a class level in silico database to annotated compounds with certain structure(Keshet et al. 2022).

7.9.9 KGMN

Knowledge-guided multi-layer network (KGMN) integrates three-layer networks, including knowledge-based metabolic reaction network, knowledge-guided MS/MS similarity network, and global peak correlation network for annotaiton (Z. Zhou et al. 2022).

7.9.10 CCMN

CCMNs were then constructed using metabolic features shared classes, which facilitated the structure- or class annotation for completely unknown metabolic features(X. Zhang et al. 2024).

7.10 MS Database for annotation

7.10.1 MS

7.10.2 MS/MS

LibGen can generate high quality spectral libraries of Natural Products for EAD-, UVPD-, and HCD-High Resolution Mass Spectrometers(Kong et al. 2023).

  • MoNA Platform to collect all other open source database

  • MassBank

  • GNPS use inner correlationship in the data and make network analysis at peaks’ level instand of annotated compounds to annotate the data.

  • ReSpect: phytochemicals

  • Metlin is another useful online application for annotation(Guijas et al. 2018).

  • LipidBlast: in silico prediction

  • Lipid Maps

  • MZcloud

  • NIST: Not free

  • GMDB a multistage tandem mass spectral database using a variety of structurally defined glycans.

  • HMDB is a freely available electronic database containing detailed information about small molecule metabolites found in the human body.

  • KEGG is a collection of small molecules, biopolymers, and other chemical substances that are relevant to biological systems.

7.11 Compounds Database

  • PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

  • Chemspider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 67 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

  • ChEBI is a freely available dictionary of molecular entities focused on ‘small’ chemical compounds.

  • RefMet A Reference list of Metabolite names.

  • CAS Largest substance database

  • CompTox compounds, exposure and toxicity database. Here is related data.

  • T3DB is a unique bioinformatics resource that combines detailed toxin data with comprehensive toxin target information.

  • FooDB is the world’s largest and most comprehensive resource on food constituents, chemistry and biology.

  • Phenol explorer is the first comprehensive database on polyphenol content in foods.

  • Drugbank is a unique bioinformatics and cheminformatics resource that combines detailed drug data with comprehensive drug target information.

  • LMDB is a freely available electronic database containing detailed information about small molecule metabolites found in different livestock species.

  • HPV High Production Volume Information System

There are also metabolites atlas for specific domain.

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