MBRole: enrichment analysis of metabolomic data

• Published in: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 730 - 731
• Main Authors: Chagoyen, Monica, Pazos, Florencio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.03.2011
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Computational Biology - methods; Databases, Factual; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Internet; Mathematics in biology. Statistical analysis. Models. Metrology. Data processing in biology (general aspects); Metabolomics - methods; Software; Enrichment; Metabolomics; Data analysis; Data
• ISSN: 1367-4803; 1367-4811; 1367-4811
• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr001

While many tools exist for performing enrichment analysis of transcriptomic and proteomic data in order to interpret them in biological terms, almost no equivalent tools exist for metabolomic data. We present Metabolite Biological Role (MBRole), a web server for carrying out over-representation analysis of biological and chemical annotations in arbitrary sets of metabolites (small chemical compounds) coming from metabolomic data of any organism or sample. Availability and Implementation: The web server is freely available at http://csbg.cnb.csic.es/mbrole. It was tested in the main web browsers. Contact:  monica.chagoyen@cnb.csic.es