About the Authors

Souhaila Bouatra

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Farid Aziat

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Rupasri Mandal

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

An Chi Guo

Affiliation Department of Computing Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Michael R. Wilson

Affiliation Department of Computing Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Craig Knox

Affiliation Department of Computing Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Trent C. Bjorndahl

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ramanarayan Krishnamurthy

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Fozia Saleem

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Philip Liu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Zerihun T. Dame

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jenna Poelzer

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jessica Huynh

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Faizath S. Yallou

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Nick Psychogios

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Edison Dong

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ralf Bogumil

Affiliation BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, Innsbruck, Austria

Cornelia Roehring

Affiliation BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, Innsbruck, Austria

David S. Wishart

david.wishart@ualberta.ca

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Computing Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

Ralf Bogumil and Cornelia Roehring are employed by BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG. This company produces kits for targeted metabolomic analyses. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB FA RM RK DSW. Performed the experiments: SB FA RM RK ZTD NP RB CR. Analyzed the data: SB FA RM RK ACG ZTD DSW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ACG MRW CK TCB FS PL ZTD JP JH FSY ED RB CR DSW. Wrote the paper: SB FA RM RK TCB FS PL NP DSW.