Apr 12, 2023

Untargeted IMS Tentative Identification Lipidomics

  • 1Delft University of Technology;
  • 2Vanderbilt University
  • VU Biomolecular Multimodal Imaging Center / Spraggins Research Group
  • Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) Method Development Community
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Protocol CitationLukasz Migas, Madeline E. Colley, Katerina Djambazova, Martin Dufresne, Angela Kruse, David Anderson, Olof Isberg, Jamie Allen, ali.zahraei , Melissa Farrow, Jeff Spraggins, Raf Van De Plas, Martin Dufrense 2023. Untargeted IMS Tentative Identification Lipidomics. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.4r3l27j7qg1y/v1
License: This is an open access  protocol  distributed under the terms of the  Creative Commons Attribution License,  which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Protocol status: Working
We use this protocol and it's working
Created: April 08, 2023
Last Modified: October 19, 2023
Protocol  Integer ID: 80191
Keywords: untargeted ims tentative identification lipidomics the purpose, untargeted ims tentative identification lipidomic, tentative annotations for lipid, lipid, using im, tentative annotation, im
Abstract
The purpose of this protocol is to generate tentative annotations for lipids detected using IMS.
Following pre-processing, tentative identification is performed using an in-house developed annotation software - annotine.
Generate an average mass spectrum of the dataset (in profile mode).
Scale the mass spectrum between 0 and 1, and peak-pick its profile to retrieve a list of m/z features (commonly 100s to 1000s).
Filter the peak list to retain only peaks that have a relative intensity above 0.001 (sensitive mode) or 0.01 (standard mode). Peaks whose intensity value falls below this threshold are removed.
(optional) De-isotope the peak list to remove M+1, M+2, … and other potential isotopes from further consideration.
Generate an internal database on the basis of a user-supplied list of molecular species databases and a set of user-supplied expected adduct types:

Databases:
a. coreMetabolome, LMSD, SHexCer, HMDB5
b. (optional) a local LC-MS database
Adducts:
a. Positive mode:  [M+H]+, [M+Na]+, [M+K]+
b. Negative mode: [M-H]-, [M-CH3]-

Note

Perform tentative identification by comparing the peak list with the built database of species and adduct combinations. If a peak is within a ±5 ppm window of an annotation in the database, that annotation is assigned to that peak. This process is repeated until each peak has been compared to the database.
Evaluate each tentative annotation using metrics.
(optional) To reduce the number of unlikely annotations, calculate a false discovery rate (FDR) for every tentative identification. Annotations can be filtered based on the FDR (or any other) score.
(optional) If LC-MS results are available (see LC-MS/MS lipidomics protocol below), associate these directly with the annotine results. This allows immediate highlighting of which tentative identifications have also been observed by LC-MS/MS, increasing the confidence of the identification.
Protocol
CREATED BY
Madeline E. Colley