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⚡ I'm super excited that our work on creating the #GNPS nearest neighbor suspect spectral library for #untargeted #metabolomics has now officially been published in @naturecomms.

This was a massive effort, as evidenced by the many awesome co-authors I was able to collaborate with. 🙌 Many thanks to everyone, but especially to @pdorrestein1, as this paper is one of the main outcomes from my postdoc at @ucsandiego.

Manuscript: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-440

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ENPKG integrates or is built on many computational metabolomics tools, such as , , , , , , or ! A big thank you to the people behind them 🙏

➡ More info in the preprint: doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2023

ChemRxivA Sample-Centric and Knowledge-Driven Computational Framework for Natural Products Drug DiscoveryModern natural products (NPs) research relies on untargeted liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry metabolomics. Together with cutting-edge processing and computational annotation strategies, such approaches can yield extensive spectral and structural information. However, current processing workflows require feature-alignment steps based on retention time which hinders the comparison of samples originating from different batches or analyzed using different instrumental setups. In addition, there is currently no analytical framework available to efficiently match processed metabolomics data and associated metadata with external resources. To address these limitations, we present a new sample-centric and knowledge-driven framework allowing multi-modal data alignment - e.g. through chemical structures, biological activities, or spectral features - and demonstrate its value in exploring large and chemodiverse natural extract datasets. Here, the experimental data is processed at the sample level, matched with external identifiers where possible, semantically enriched, and integrated into a unified knowledge graph. The use of semantic web technology enables comparison of processed and standardized data, information, and knowledge at the repository scale. We demonstrate the utility of the developed framework, the Experimental Natural Products Knowledge Graph (ENPKG), to leverage the results obtained from screening 1,600 plant extracts against trypanosomatids and streamline the identification of new antiparasitic compounds. Thanks to its versatility, the proposed approach allows for a radically novel exploitation of metabolomics data. Semantic web technologies are a fundamental asset and we anticipate that their adoption will complement the current computational metabolomics pipelines and enable the community to advance in the description of global chemodiversity and drug discovery projects.

I am the Director of the Chemical Analysis & Instrumentation Laboratory at , a core facility that focuses on based analyses of biological and environmental samples. I love tools like and the ecosystem for data analysis, and have been learning and to contribute or develop my own. I also love mass spectrometry for analysis and detecting new .