Machine learning-assisted metabolomics analysis

Machine learning-assisted metabolomics analysis is an integrative bioinformatics pipeline that couples untargeted or targeted metabolite profiling — via mass spectrometry or NMR — with supervised and unsupervised ML algorithms to discover biomarkers, classify phenotypes, and model metabolic states. By handling the extreme dimensionality and collinearity inherent in metabolomics datasets (hundreds to thousands of features, tens to hundreds of samples), ML methods such as random forests, support vector machines, and neural networks extract biologically interpretable patterns that classical univariate statistics routinely miss.