Research Article

Tools and Databases of the KOMICS Web Portal for Preprocessing, Mining, and Dissemination of Metabolomics Data

Table 1

The tools and databases available at KOMICS (as of November 2013).

NameDescriptionURLReference

Standalone tools
PowerGetMetabolite detection, alignment, and annotation tool for LC-high-resolution-MS.http://www.kazusa.or.jp/komics/software/PowerGet
MatchedIonsFinderRevising tool for metabolite alignment results from LC-MS analyses.http://www.kazusa.or.jp/komics/software/MatchedIonsFinder[1]
FragmentAlignMetabolite alignment and annotation tool for GC-MS.http://www.kazusa.or.jp/komics/software/FragmentAlign
SpiceHitHigh-throughput metabolite detection and annotation tool for SIM analysis in CE-MS.http://www.kazusa.or.jp/komics/software/SpiceHit
KAGIANAMicrosoft Excel-based tool for exploring the function of Arabidopsis genes.http://webs2.kazusa.or.jp/kagiana/[2]
SokanProjectA tool for calculating Pearson's correlation coefficients.http://www.kazusa.or.jp/komics/software/SokanProject

Web tools
MFSearcherWeb service for rapid prediction of elemental composition and database searching by accurate mass values.http://webs2.kazusa.or.jp/mfsearcher/[3]
DAGVizVisualization tool for similarities of gene ontology annotations.http://www.pgb.kazusa.or.jp/dagviz/[4]

Databases
MassBaseLargest repository of metabolomics raw data.http://webs2.kazusa.or.jp/massbase/
KomicMarketSample-centric database for metabolomic profile data.http://webs2.kazusa.or.jp/komicmarket/
New KomicMarket temporary websiteDevelopmental version of KomicMarket.http://webs2.kazusa.or.jp/new_km_tmp/
KaPPA-View4Pathway database for visualizing metabolome and transcriptome data.http://kpv.kazusa.or.jp/[5]
MetabolonoteMetadata-specific Semantic MediaWiki-based database.http://metabolonote.kazusa.or.jp/
MS-MS Fragment ViewerDatabase for MS/MS fragmentation data of 115 flavonoids.http://webs2.kazusa.or.jp/msmsfragmentviewer/
RnRDatabase providing metabolite-to-gene relationships calculated from ~200 transgenic Arabidopsis cells.http://webs2.kazusa.or.jp/kagiana/rnr
CoPGene-to-gene coexpression database for 8 plant species calculated using the Confeito algorithm.http://webs2.kazusa.or.jp/kagiana/cop0911[6]
KATANACross-search system for Arabidopsis genes.http://www.kazusa.or.jp/katana/[7]
ARTRADatabase of probe information of Arabidopsis DNA microarray data (developed by Takara Bio Inc.).http://artra.kazusa.or.jp/artra/ARI3_101/[8]
FuLojaDatabase of Lotus japonicus full-length cDNA obtained in the NEDO project.http://webs2.kazusa.or.jp/IntegrationDBRS/FuLoja/
PMPj-BlastDatabase of ESTs, cDNAs, and oligo DNA microarray probes for Lotus japonicus and some other plants.http://webs2.kazusa.or.jp/IntegrationDBRS/pmpj-blast/