---
title: "Using CluMSID with a Publicly Available MetaboLights Data Set"
author: "Tobias Depke"
date: '`r format(Sys.Date(), "%B %d, %Y")`'
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
%\VignetteIndexEntry{CluMSID MTBLS Tutorial}
%\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
%\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
%\VignetteDepends{CluMSIDdata, readr, dplyr, stringr, magrittr}
---
```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
collapse = TRUE,
comment = "#>",
echo = TRUE,
warning = FALSE
)
```
<style>
p.caption {
font-size: 80%;
text-align: left;
}
</style>
```{r captions, include=FALSE}
fig1 <- paste("**Figure 1:**",
"Circularised dendrogram as a result of",
"agglomerative hierarchical clustering with average linkage",
"as agglomeration criterion based on",
"MS^2^ spectra similarities",
"of the MTBLS433 LC-MS/MS example data set.",
"Each leaf represents one feature and colours encode",
"cluster affiliation of the features.",
"Leaf labels display feature IDs.",
"Distance from the central point is indicative",
"of the height of the dendrogram.")
fig2 <- paste("**Figure 2:**",
"Barplot for the feature M283.2642T14.62,",
"identified as stearic acid,",
"displaying fragment *m/z* on the x-axis",
"and intensity normalised to the maximum intensity",
"on the y-axis.")
fig3 <- paste("**Figure 3:**",
"Barplot for the feature M311.3046T15.1,",
"identified as arachidic acid,",
"displaying fragment *m/z* on the x-axis",
"and intensity normalised to the maximum intensity",
"on the y-axis.")
```
# Introduction
In this tutorial, we would like to demonstate the use of CluMSID with a
publicly available LC-MS/MS data set deposited on
[MetaboLights](https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/).
We chose data set MTBLS433 that can be accessed on the MetaboLights
web page (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/MTBLS433) and which has
been published in the following article:
Kalogiouri, N. P., Alygizakis, N. A., Aalizadeh, R., & Thomaidis, N. S. (2016).
Olive oil authenticity studies by target and nontarget LC–QTOF-MS combined
with advanced chemometric techniques. *Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry*,
408(28), 7955-7970.
The authors analysed olive oil of various providence using reversed-phase
ultra high performance liquid chromatography–electrospray
ionisation quadrupole time of flight tandem mass spectrometry
in negative mode
with auto-MS/MS fragmentation.
As a representative pooled sample is not provided, we will combine MS^2^
data from several runs and use the peak picking done by the authors of the
study for the merging of MS^2^ spectra. Some metabolite annotations are also
included in the MTBLS433 data set which we will integrate into our analysis.
```{r load, eval=TRUE, message=FALSE}
library(CluMSID)
library(CluMSIDdata)
```
# Extract MS^2^ spectra from multiple *.mzML files
For demonstration, not all files from the analysis will be included into
the analysis. Four data files from the data set have been chosen that
represent olive oil samples from different regions in Greece:
* `YH1_GA7_01_10463.mzML`: YH1, from Komi
* `AX1_GB5_01_10470.mzML`: AX1, from Megaloxori
* `LP1_GB3_01_10467.mzML`: LP1, from Moria
* `BR1_GB6_01_10471.mzML`: BR1, from Agia Paraskevi
Note that these are mzML files that can be processed the exact same way
as mzXML files.
Furthermore, we would like to use the peak picking and annotation data
from the original authors which we can read from the file
`m_mtbls433_metabolite_profiling_mass_spectrometry_v2_maf.tsv`.
First, we extract MS^2^ spectra from the respective files separately
by using `extractMS2spectra()`. Then, we just combine the resulting
lists into one list using base R functionality:
```{r import}
YH1 <- system.file("extdata", "YH1_GA7_01_10463.mzML",
package = "CluMSIDdata")
AX1 <- system.file("extdata", "AX1_GB5_01_10470.mzML",
package = "CluMSIDdata")
LP1 <- system.file("extdata", "LP1_GB3_01_10467.mzML",
package = "CluMSIDdata")
BR1 <- system.file("extdata", "BR1_GB6_01_10471.mzML",
package = "CluMSIDdata")
YH1list <- extractMS2spectra(YH1)
AX1list <- extractMS2spectra(AX1)
LP1list <- extractMS2spectra(LP1)
BR1list <- extractMS2spectra(BR1)
raw_oillist <- c(YH1list, AX1list, LP1list, BR1list)
```
# Merge spectra with external peak list
First, we import the peak list by reading the respective table
and filtering for the relevant information.
We only need the columns `metabolite_identification`,
`mass_to_charge` and `rentention_time` and we would like
to replace `"unknown"` with an empty field in the
`metabolite_identification` column. Plus, the features
do not have a unique identifier in the table but we
can easily generate that from *m/z* and RT.
Note that the retention time in the raw data is given in
seconds and in the data table it is in minutes,
so we have to convert.
For the sake of consistency, we also change the column names.
We use `tidyverse` syntax but users can do as they prefer.
```{r peaks, message=FALSE}
raw_mtbls_df <- system.file("extdata",
"m_mtbls433_metabolite_profiling_mass_spectrometry_v2_maf.tsv",
package = "CluMSIDdata")
require(magrittr)
mtbls_df <- readr::read_delim(raw_mtbls_df, "\t") %>%
dplyr::mutate(metabolite_identification =
stringr::str_replace(metabolite_identification,
"unknown", "")) %>%
dplyr::mutate(id = paste0("M", mass_to_charge, "T", retention_time)) %>%
dplyr::mutate(retention_time = retention_time * 60) %>%
dplyr::select(id,
mass_to_charge,
retention_time,
metabolite_identification) %>%
dplyr::rename(mz = mass_to_charge,
rt = retention_time,
annotation = metabolite_identification)
```
This peak list, or its first three columns,
can now be used to merge spectra. We exclude spectra that
do not match to any of the peaks in the peak list.
As we are not very familiar with instrumental setup,
we set the limits for retention time and *m/z*
deviation a little wider. To make an educated guess
on mass accuracy, we take a look at an identified metabolite,
its measured *m/z* and its theoretical *m/z*.
We use arachidic acid [M-H]^-^, whose theoretical *m/z*
is 311.2956:
```{r accuracy}
## Define theoretical m/z
th <- 311.2956
## Get measured m/z for arachidic acid data from mtbls_df
ac <- mtbls_df %>%
dplyr::filter(annotation == "Arachidic acid") %>%
dplyr::select(mz) %>%
as.numeric()
## Calculate relative m/z difference in ppm
abs(th - ac)/th * 1e6
```
So, we will work with an an *m/z* tolerance of 30ppm (which seems rather high
for a high resolution mass spectrometer).
A 30ppm mass accuracy necessitates an *m/z* tolerance of 60ppm,
because deviations can go both ways:
```{r merge, eval=FALSE}
oillist <- mergeMS2spectra(raw_oillist,
peaktable = mtbls_df[,1:3],
exclude_unmatched = TRUE,
rt_tolerance = 60,
mz_tolerance = 3e-5)
```
```{r merge2, include=FALSE}
load(file = system.file("extdata", "oillist.RData", package = "CluMSIDdata"))
```
# Add annotations
To add annotations, we use `mtbls_df` as well, as described in the
General Tutorial:
```{r annos}
fl <- featureList(oillist)
fl_annos <- dplyr::left_join(fl, mtbls_df, by = "id")
annolist <- addAnnotations(oillist, fl_annos, annotationColumn = 6)
```
# Generate distance matrix
For the generation of the distance matrix, too, we use
an *m/z* tolerance of 30ppm:
```{r distance, eval=FALSE}
distmat <- distanceMatrix(annolist, mz_tolerance = 3e-5)
```
```{r distance2, include=FALSE}
load(file = system.file("extdata", "oil-distmat.RData",
package = "CluMSIDdata"))
```
# Explore data
To explore the data, we have a look at a cluster dendrogram:
```{r dendro, fig.width=7, fig.asp=1.2, fig.cap=fig1}
HCplot(distmat, h = 0.7, cex = 0.7)
```
Since it was not in the focus of their study, the authors identified
only a few metabolites. If we look at the positions of these
metabolites in the cluster dendrogram, we see that the poly-unsaturated
fatty acids alpha-linolenic acid and alpha-linolenic acid are
nicely separated from the saturated
fatty acids stearic acid and arachidic acid. We would expect the latter
to cluster together but a look at the spectra reveals that stearic acid
barely produces any fragment ions and mainly contains the unfragmented
[M-H]^-^ parent ion:
```{r stearate, fig.width=5, fig.asp=0.85, fig.cap=fig2}
specplot(getSpectrum(annolist, "annotation", "Stearic acid"))
```
In contrast, arachidic acid produces a much richer spectrum:
```{r arachidate, fig.width=5, fig.asp=0.85, fig.cap=fig3}
specplot(getSpectrum(annolist, "annotation", "Arachidic acid"))
```
Inspecting the features that cluster close to arachidic acid shows that
many of them have an exact *m/z* that conforms with other fatty acids
of different chain length or saturation (within the *m/z* tolerance),
e.g. the neighbouring feature M339.2125T15.32
that could be arachidonic acid [M+Cl]^-^.
Looking at oleic acid [M-H]^-^, we see that it clusters very closely to
M563.5254T13.93, whose *m/z* is consistent with oleic acid [2M-H]^-^ and some
other possible adducts.
As a last example, the only identified metabolite that does not belong to the
class of fatty acids is acetosyringone, a phenolic secondary plant metabolite.
It forms part of a rather dense cluster in the dendrogram, suggesting high
spectral similarities to the other members of the cluster. It would be
interesting to try to annotate more of these metabolite to find out if
they are also phenolic compounds.
In conclusion, we demonstrated how to use `CluMSID` with a publicly available
data set from the MetaboLights repository and how to include external
information such as peak lists or feature annotations into a `CluMSID`
workflow.
In doing so, we had a look on a few example findings that could help to
annotate more of the features in the data set and thereby showed the
usefulness of `CluMSID` for samples very different from the ones in
the other tutorials.
# Session Info
```{r session}
sessionInfo()
```