RawHummus

RawHummus: Automated Quality Control Reporting for LC-MS Omics Data

RawHummus generates comprehensive quality control reports for raw LC-MS metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics datasets to assess data integrity and analytical performance.


Key Features:

  • Automated QC Reporting: Produces QC reports containing plots, tables, and summary statistics of raw data quality metrics.
  • Cross-Platform Compatibility: Validated on 13 metabolomics/lipidomics datasets and one proteomics dataset across five LC-MS platforms.

Scientific Applications:

  • Analytical Performance Monitoring: Detects detector sensitivity drifts, retention time shifts, and mass accuracy variations in large-scale metabolomics studies.
  • Data Quality Assurance: Automates QC assessment to improve reliability and reproducibility of LC-MS analytical results.

Methodology:

Analyzes raw LC-MS data to identify measurement bias, detector sensitivity drift, retention time shift, and mass accuracy variation, generating detailed QC reports for early detection of system inconsistencies prior to downstream data processing.

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License:
GPL-3.0
Cost:
Free of charge
Tool Type:
library
Operating Systems:
Mac, Linux, Windows
Programming Languages:
R
Added:
6/11/2022
Last Updated:
6/11/2022

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Publications

Dong Y, Kazachkova Y, Gou M, Morgan L, Wachsman T, Gazit E, Birkler RID. RawHummus: an R Shiny app for automated raw data quality control in metabolomics. Bioinformatics. 2022;38(7):2072-2074. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac040. PMID:35080628.

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