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Correction: Interpretation of type 2 diabetes mellitus relevant GC-MS metabolomics fingerprints by using random forests

Jian-Hua Huang a, Hua-Lin Xie ac, Jun Yan a, Dong-Sheng Cao a, Hong-Mei Lu a, Qing-Song Xu b and Yi-Zeng Liang *a
aResearch Center of Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicines, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, P. R. China. E-mail: yizeng_liang@263.net; Fax: +86-731-88830831; Tel: +86-731-88830831
bSchool of Mathematical Sciences and Computing Technology, Central South University, Changsha 410083, P. R. China
cSchool of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangtze Normal University, Fuling 408100, P. R. China

Received 3rd February 2016 , Accepted 3rd February 2016

First published on 8th February 2016


Abstract

Correction for ‘Interpretation of type 2 diabetes mellitus relevant GC-MS metabolomics fingerprints by using random forests’ by Jian-Hua Huang et al., Anal. Methods, 2013, 5, 4883–4889.


The authors wish to draw the readers' attention to their previous related study, published in Talanta,1 which should have been cited in this Analytical Methods paper.

The authors regret not giving correct attribution to Fig. 4 in the paper and Table 1 in the ESI, which were reproduced for the readers' information. The figures are reproduced below with the correct copyright permission.


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Fig. 4 3D-projection plot of metabolic fingerprints from PCA of the first three principal components for the second data set. Reproduced from ref. 2 with permission from Taylor & Francis.
Table 1 Qualitative and quantitative metabolic profile of three group mice. Reproduced from ref. 1 with permission from Elsevier
id t r a (min) Endogenous metabolites C57 AMPK-male AMPK-female
1 5.922 Aminoethane 0.2456 ± 0.0705 0.1905 ± 0.0567 0.1958 ± 0.0551
2 6.593 Ethylene glycol 0.0182 ± 0.0020 0.0530 ± 0.0428 0.0746 ± 0.0626
3 6.84 N,N-Diethylacetamide 0.0657 ± 0.0087 0.0476 ± 0.0202 0.0557 ± 0.0107
4 7.716 Lactic acid* 0.0872 ± 0.0374 0.0952 ± 0.0592 0.1482 ± 0.2155
5 7.934 Acetic acid 0.0856 ± 0.0333 0.0229 ± 0.0140 0.0412 ± 0.0203
6 10.01 Phosphate 2.1278 ± 0.9173 1.4730 ± 0.7381 1.3767 ± 0.9361
7 10.2 L-Threonine 0.0173 ± 0.0098 0.0108 ± 0.0068 0.0096 ± 0.0065
8 10.297 Phenylacetic acid 0.0047 ± 0.0023 0.0159 ± 0.0103 0.0147 ± 0.0097
9 10.382 Succinic acid* 0.0311 ± 0.0129 0.0098 ± 0.0031 0.0119 ± 0.0086
10 10.447 1,2-Hydroquinone 0.0120 ± 0.0072 0.0078 ± 0.0047 0.0067 ± 0.0039
11 10.503 Glyceric acid 0.0961 ± 0.0266 0.0400 ± 0.0232 0.0183 ± 0.0087
12 10.723 (R*,R*)-2,3-Dihydroxybutanoic acid 0.0167 ± 0.0053 0.0037 ± 0.0014 0.0053 ± 0.0029
13 11.357 2,4-Dihyoxybutanoic acid 0.0147 ± 0.0051 0.0155 ± 0.0080 0.0166 ± 0.0047
14 11.583 (R*,S*)-3,4-Dihydroxybutanoic acid 0.0304 ± 0.0098 0.0132 ± 0.0064 0.0178 ± 0.0107
15 11.797 N-(1-Oxobutyl)-glycine 0.0653 ± 0.0244 0.0319 ± 0.0186 0.0274 ± 0.0151
16 12.341 Isovaleroglycine 0.0356 ± 0.0134 0.0160 ± 0.0079 0.0107 ± 0.0073
17 12.483 D-Threitol 0.0714 ± 0.0273 0.0290 ± 0.0130 0.0251 ± 0.0151
18 12.645 N-Crotonylglycine 0.0240 ± 0.0146 0.0207 ± 0.0129 0.0148 ± 0.0099
19 12.973, 13.203 2,3,4-Trihydroxybutyrate 0.1276 ± 0.0162 0.0631 ± 0.0343 0.0412 ± 0.0250
20 14.53 N-(1-Oxohexyl)-glycine 0.0960 ± 0.0319 0.0421 ± 0.0273 0.0232 ± 0.0081
21 14.58 3-Hydroxyphenylacetic acid 0.0326 ± 0.0100 0.0140 ± 0.0081 0.0134 ± 0.0088
22 14.713 D-Xylose 0.0408 ± 0.0150 0.0182 ± 0.0044 0.0193 ± 0.0053
23 14.823, 15.057 D-Ribose 0.0926 ± 0.0370 0.0252 ± 0.0142 0.0250 ± 0.0179
24 15.509, 15.733 Arabitol 0.0287 ± 0.0164 0.0283 ± 0.0179 0.0278 ± 0.0215
25 16.023 6-Deoxy-D-galactose 0.0336 ± 0.0083 0.0177 ± 0.0100 0.0149 ± 0.0104
26 16.087 Mannonic acid 0.0505 ± 0.0177 0.0211 ± 0.0143 0.0168 ± 0.0138
27 16.2 Cis-aconitic acid* 0.0535 ± 0.0288 0.0105 ± 0.0079 0.0168 ± 0.0147
28 16.357 Phosphoric acid 0.0414 ± 0.0202 0.0230 ± 0.0141 0.0212 ± 0.0168
29 17.177 Isocitric acid* 0.0348 ± 0.0121 0.0140 ± 0.0093 0.0248 ± 0.0138
30 17.563 Hippuric acid 0.0470 ± 0.0126 0.0180 ± 0.0074 0.0156 ± 0.0096
31 17.85, 17.96 D-Fructose* 0.0512 ± 0.0286 0.0371 ± 0.0145 0.0480 ± 0.0131
32 18.087 N-Phenyl glycine* 0.0596 ± 0.0214 0.0455 ± 0.0272 0.0389 ± 0.0287
33 18.197, 18.147 D-Glucose* 0.3785 ± 0.1618 0.1741 ± 0.0654 0.1859 ± 0.0736
34 18.507 Altronic acid 0.0302 ± 0.0069 0.0185 ± 0.0100 0.0102 ± 0.0074
35 18.577, 18.65 D-Sorbitol* 0.0896 ± 0.0269 0.0254 ± 0.0187 0.0300 ± 0.0275
36 18.983, 19.533 Galactonic acid 0.0613 ± 0.0282 0.0617 ± 0.0328 0.0441 ± 0.0351
37 19.99 Palmitic acid 0.0084 ± 0.0009 0.0067 ± 0.0017 0.0071 ± 0.0025
38 20.403 Myo-inositol 0.0347 ± 0.0228 0.0097 ± 0.0037 0.0134 ± 0.0129
39 25.465 D-Turanose 0.0216 ± 0.0138 0.0197 ± 0.0090 0.0510 ± 0.0099
40 25.653, 25.783 D-(+)-Lactose monohydrate* 1.0400 ± 0.3349 0.7475 ± 0.2366 0.6559 ± 0.3286
41 25.927 Lactose* 0.0142 ± 0.0043 0.0143 ± 0.0075 0.0190 ± 0.0163


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