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We describe a statistical framework for estimating time-varying metabolic profiles and their within-group variability and for detecting between-group differences. Specifically, we propose (i) a smoothing splines mixed effects (SME) model that treats each longitudinal measurement as a smooth function of time and (ii) an associated functional test statistic. Statistical significance is assessed by a non-parametric bootstrap procedure.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: The methodology has been extensively evaluated using simulated data and has been applied to real nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy data collected in a preclinical toxicology study as part of a larger project lead by the COMET (Consortium for Metabonomic Toxicology). Our findings are compatible with the previously published studies.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability: An R script is freely available for download at http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/~gmontana\/sme.htm.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0g.montana@imperial.ac.uk<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr289","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,7,5]],"date-time":"2011-07-05T04:54:51Z","timestamp":1309841691000},"page":"1979-1985","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":42,"title":["A statistical framework for biomarker discovery in metabolomic time course data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Maurice","family":"Berk","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Timothy","family":"Ebbels","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Giovanni","family":"Montana","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,6,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012712444845600_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"461","DOI":"10.1002\/cem.733","article-title":"Batch statistical processing of 1H NMR-derived urinary spectral data","volume":"16","author":"Antti","year":"2002","journal-title":"J. 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