Database Commons

a catalog of worldwide biological databases

Summary: The Polyomics integrated Metabolomics Pipeline (PiMP) fulfils an unmet need in metabolomics data analysis. PiMP offers automated and user-friendly analysis from mass spectrometry data acquisition to biological interpretation. Our key innovations are the Summary Page, which provides a simple overview of the experiment in the format of a scientific paper, containing the key findings of the experiment along with associated metadata; and the Metabolite Page, which provides a list of each metabolite accompanied by 'evidence cards', which provide a variety of criteria behind metabolite annotation including peak shapes, intensities in different sample groups and database information.
Availability and implementation: PiMP is available at http://polyomics.mvls.gla.ac.uk, and access is freely available on request. 50?GB of space is allocated for data storage, with unrestricted number of samples and analyses per user. Source code is available at https://github.com/RonanDaly/pimp and licensed under the GPL.
Contact: karl.burgess@glasgow.ac.uk.
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.