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An alternative, less-comprehensive approach is to use triple quadrupole (QqQ) mass spectrometry to analyze predetermined sets of metabolites (typically fewer than several hundred). This is done using authentic standards to develop QqQ experiments that specifically detect only the targeted metabolites, with the advantage that the need for ion identification after profiling is eliminated.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Here, we propose a framework to extend the application of QqQ mass spectrometers to large-scale metabolite profiling. We aim to provide a foundation for designing QqQ multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) experiments for each of the 82\u2009696 metabolites in the METLIN metabolite database. First, we identify common fragmentation products from the experimental fragmentation data in METLIN. Then, we model the likelihoods of each precursor structure in METLIN producing each common fragmentation product. With these likelihood estimates, we select ensembles of common fragmentation products that minimize our uncertainty about metabolite identities. We demonstrate encouraging performance and, based on our results, we suggest how our method can be integrated with future work to develop large-scale MRM experiments.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: Our predictions, Supplementary results, and the code for estimating likelihoods and selecting ensembles of fragmentation reactions are made available on the lab website at http:\/\/pattilab.wustl.edu\/FragPred.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0gjpattij@wustl.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv085","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,2,18]],"date-time":"2015-02-18T04:51:32Z","timestamp":1424235092000},"page":"2017-2023","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Discriminating precursors of common fragments for large-scale metabolite profiling by triple quadrupole mass spectrometry"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Igor","family":"Nikolskiy","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Genetics, 2Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA, 3Scripps Center for Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry, Departments of Chemistry, Molecular and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA and 4Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA"}]},{"given":"Gary","family":"Siuzdak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Genetics, 2Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA, 3Scripps Center for Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry, Departments of Chemistry, Molecular and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA and 4Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA"}]},{"given":"Gary J.","family":"Patti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Genetics, 2Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA, 3Scripps Center for Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry, Departments of Chemistry, Molecular and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA and 4Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA"},{"name":"1 Department of Genetics, 2Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA, 3Scripps Center for Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry, Departments of Chemistry, Molecular and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA and 4Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA"},{"name":"1 Department of Genetics, 2Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA, 3Scripps Center for Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry, Departments of Chemistry, Molecular and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA and 4Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,2,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020115241978500_btv085-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"98","DOI":"10.1007\/s11306-014-0676-4","article-title":"Competitive fragmentation modeling of ESI-MS\/MS spectra for putative metabolite identification","volume":"11","author":"Allen","year":"2015","journal-title":"Metabolomics"},{"key":"2023020115241978500_btv085-B2","article-title":"Unsupervised learning of multiple motifs in biopolymers using EM","author":"Bailey","year":"1995"},{"key":"2023020115241978500_btv085-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"76","DOI":"10.1016\/j.chroma.2006.05.019","article-title":"Separation and quantitation of water soluble cellular metabolites by hydrophilic interaction chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry","volume":"1125","author":"Bajad","year":"2006","journal-title":"J. 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