Guidelines for sample normalization to minimize batch variation for large-scale metabolic profiling of plant natural genetic variance

Saleh Alseekh, Si Wu, Yariv Brotman, Alisdair R. Fernie

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Abstract

Recent methodological advances in both liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) have facilitated the profiling highly complex mixtures of primary and secondary metabolites in order to investigate a diverse range of biological questions. These techniques usually face a large number of potential sources of technical and biological variation. In this chapter we describe guidelines and normalization procedures to reduce the analytical variation, which are essential for the high-throughput evaluation of metabolic variance used in broad genetic populations which commonly entail the evaluation of hundreds or thousands of samples. This chapter specifically deals with handling of large-scale plant samples for metabolomics analysis of quantitative trait loci (mQTL) in order to reduce analytical error as well as batch-to-batch variation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMethods in Molecular Biology
PublisherHumana Press Inc.
Pages33-46
Number of pages14
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018

Publication series

NameMethods in Molecular Biology
Volume1778
ISSN (Print)1064-3745

Keywords

  • Batch normalization
  • GC-MS
  • LC-MS
  • Large-scale metabolomics
  • Natural genetic variation
  • QTL mapping
  • Variation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics

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