Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2023 Jul;53(4):503-506.
LipidR is a recent software platform that uses R. This commentary briefly reviews the data published in the literature using this new tool for data mining and analyzing lipidomics datasets. This software is maintained by the R Foundation specifically for Statistical Computing. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. LipidR is a novel open-source R package with enormous functionalities. LipidR filled three significant gaps in lipidomics. First, LipidR has the potential to mine public lipidomics datasets more efficiently and effectively. Second, the deconstructing function of the lipid name is unique to LipidR. Third, the adjustment for confounding factors, which is required for complex clinical lipidomic profiles, is implemented in LipidR. We expect LipidR will be crucial in analyzing lipidomic profiles of liquid biopsies in the near future.
LipidR 是一个最近的软件平台，使用 R 语言。本评论简要回顾了使用这个新工具进行数据挖掘和分析脂质组学数据集的文献中发表的数据。这个软件是由 R 基金会专门为统计计算维护的。R 语言在统计学家和数据挖掘者中被广泛用于开发统计软件和数据分析。LipidR 是一个具有巨大功能的新型开源 R 包。LipidR 填补了脂质组学的三个重大空白。首先，LipidR 有可能更有效地挖掘公共脂质组学数据集。其次，脂质名称的解构功能是 LipidR 所独有的。第三，在 LipidR 中实现了对复杂临床脂质组学特征的混杂因素的调整。我们预计，在不久的将来，LipidR 将在分析液体活检的脂质组学特征方面发挥关键作用。
