TOFSIMS-P: A Web-Based Platform for Analysis of Large-Scale TOF-SIMS Data

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Abstract

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) has been a useful tool to profile secondary ions from the near surface region of specimens with its high molecular specificity and submicrometer spatial resolution. However, the TOF-SIMS analysis of even a moderately large size of samples has been hampered due to the lack of tools for automatically analyzing the huge amount of TOF-SIMS data. Here, we present a computational platform to automatically identify and align peaks, find discriminatory ions, build a classifier, and construct networks describing differential metabolic pathways. To demonstrate the utility of the platform, we analyzed 43 data sets generated from seven gastric cancer and eight normal tissues using TOF-SIMS. A total of 87 138 ions were detected from the 43 data sets by TOF-SIMS. We selected and then aligned 1286 ions. Among them, we found the 66 ions discriminating gastric cancer tissues from normal ones. Using these 66 ions, we then built a partial least square-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) model resulting in a misclassification error rate of 0.024. Finally, network analysis of the 66 ions showed disregulation of amino acid metabolism in the gastric cancer tissues. The results show that the proposed framework was effective in analyzing TOF-SIMS data from a moderately large size of samples, resulting in discrimination of gastric cancer tissues from normal tissues and identification of biomarker candidates associated with the amino acid metabolism.

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