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	Analisi Metabolomica Bayesiana	Analisi Bayesiana di Arricchimento di Percorsi
Campo	Bioinformatica	Bioinformatica
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2005–2010	2001–2007
Ideatore	Simon Rogers, Mark Girolami and colleagues (Bayesian NMR metabolomics framework, ~2009); broader Bayesian metabolomics developed through 2000s–2010s	Pierre Baldi, Anthony Long; Michael Newton et al. (foundational Bayesian gene-set frameworks)
Tipo	Probabilistic statistical pipeline	Probabilistic gene-set testing
Fonte seminale	Rogers, S., Scheltema, R. A., & Girolami, M. A. (2009). Bayesian analysis of metabolomic NMR data. Bioinformatics, 25(14), 1809-1815.	Baldi, P., & Long, A. D. (2001). A Bayesian framework for the analysis of microarray expression data: regularized t-test and statistical inferences of gene changes. Bioinformatics, 17(6), 509–519.
Alias	Bayesian metabolomics, probabilistic metabolomics, Bayesian metabolite profiling, Bayesian metabolic flux analysis	Bayesian gene-set testing, Bayesian GSEA, Bayesian functional enrichment, BGSEA
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	Bayesian metabolomics analysis applies probabilistic inference to metabolite abundance data — typically from mass spectrometry or NMR spectroscopy — to identify differentially abundant metabolites, annotate spectral features, and integrate pathway knowledge. By encoding prior biological knowledge into prior distributions and propagating uncertainty throughout the analysis, it yields more calibrated probability statements about metabolic differences than classical frequentist testing alone.	Bayesian pathway enrichment analysis tests whether a predefined set of genes — a biological pathway — is systematically overrepresented among genes that show evidence of differential activity in an experiment. Unlike classical over-representation tests, it encodes prior biological knowledge as a prior distribution and updates it with the observed expression data, yielding posterior probabilities of enrichment rather than p-values. This probabilistic framing naturally handles small samples, multiple pathways, and uncertainty propagation in a coherent statistical framework.