MetaboAnalyst

MetaboAnalyst5.0

- user-friendly, streamlined metabolomics data analysis

About

The web interface of MetaboAnalyst was implemented based on the JavaServer Faces Technology using the PrimeFaces library (v8.0). The interactive visualization were implemented using JavaScript. The majority of the back-end computations are carried out by over 700 functions written in R (the MetaboAnalystR package). Please note the raw spectra processing module has been developed as an independent R package for the ease of installation and maintenance.

To support growing user traffic, MetaboAnalyst 5.0 has employed distributed computing and microservice for scalable metabolomics data analysis. The new spectral processing module also allows user registration in order to perform this time-consuming task. Due to its complex configurations and sensitive information stored in the package, the support for local installation of the web server has been discontinued. We encourage users to use the public web servers for flexible and interactive data analysis tasks, and the R packages for batch processing.

Public Servers

Main Server: https://www.metaboanalyst.ca
-- this server is hosted on Cloud for general-purpose data analysis

Dev Server: https://dev.metaboanalyst.ca
-- this server is hosted on a local computer dedicated for raw spectra processing as well as for backup and development

R Packages

MetaboAnalystR: https://github.com/xia-lab/MetaboAnalystR
-- for general-purpose statistical and functional analysis

OptiLCMS: https://github.com/xia-lab/OptiLCMS
-- for efficient LC-MS spectra processing with parameter optimization

Software License:

"This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the 
GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of 
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without 
even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details."