The invention belongs to the field of metabonomics research, and particularly relates to a method for
processing direct injection
mass spectrometry data, which comprises the following steps of: acquiring the direct injection
mass spectrometry data containing
mass-to-charge ratio and intensity information by a mass
spectrometer through a direct injection
mass spectrometry technology, and determining the mass-to-charge ratio of the direct injection
mass spectrometry data based on mass-to-charge ratio matching and
signal-to-
noise ratio judgment.
Background noise is removed from the direct injection
mass spectrum data; when a plurality of samples are processed, performing peak alignment on the
mass spectrum data of the plurality of samples; based on the mass difference and theoretical
isotope intensity distribution, identifying
isotope peaks in the
mass spectrum data, and distinguishing single
isotope peaks from isotope clusters;
metabolite annotation is performed on the
mass spectrometric data based on user-selected
ion patterns,
adduct types, and molecular weight tolerances. According to the method, four core modules of
background noise removal, peak alignment, isotope peak recognition and
metabolite annotation are integrated, and the key technical problem that a traditional LC-MS metabonomics
data analysis method cannot be directly applied due to lack of
retention time dimensions is solved.