News & updates

  • To help sustain our platform, we now offer self-paced Omics Data Science training, Omics Data Science book and Pro version running on cloud or your server.
  • Check out our latest Nature Protocol: Using MetaboAnalyst 6.0 for exposomics data analysis: from LC-MS2 spectra processing to dose-response modeling and causal inference;
  • Three new enrichment modules with focused compound databases: Microbial Metabolite Enrichment (MiMeDB, Exposome-Explorer, KEGG gut bacterial pathways), Exposure & Diet Enrichment (food intake biomarkers, dietary patterns, food composition, chemical exposures) and Lipid Class Enrichment (LIPID MAPS categories and classes, lipid pathways; lipid names matched at their own level); each result states its library, database, background and sources (09/27/2026);
  • Spatial modules: annotation libraries for human, mouse, rat, zebrafish, Drosophila, C. elegans and Arabidopsis plus microbial taxon markers; the complete metabolite-set collection (pathways, chemical and lipid classes, disease, SNP, exposure, predicted and location sets) for compound-set and enrichment analysis (09/20/2026);
  • Interface update: module name and step breadcrumb on every analysis page, visited steps marked in the navigation tree, home and module overview updated for the 7.0 modules (09/19/2026);
  • Four new modules for spatial metabolomics: Spatial MS Peaks (m/z tables) and Spatial Compound Table (named metabolites or lipids) with spatial QC by Moran's I, tissue maps, pseudobulk differential analysis, pathway-guided annotation, compound-set analysis and enrichment and microbial taxon-marker screening; Spatial Multi-Omics (metabolites and transcripts on one section); and Spatial Data Bridge (SCiLS Lab, METASPACE and 10x Visium exports, segmentation, merging sections, pairing with LC-MS) (09/18/2026);

MetaboAnalyst 7.0 is a comprehensive web ecosystem for metabolomics, lipidomics, and multi-omics data analysis. Building on a decade-long foundation in raw spectra processing, multivariate statistics, pathway topology, and biomarker discovery, Version 7.0 expands to decode the broader chemical interface of life—integrating lipids, spatial tissue context, and environmental signals (exposome, diet, and microbiome). The platform organizes 28 specialized modules across 7 application domains, from statistics, targeted and global metabolomics to spatial metabolomics, lipidomics, exposomics and microbiomics.

Modules

Statisticstables and metadata

Statistics
Statistical Analysis [one factor]

Univariate tests (fold change, t-tests, volcano plot, ANOVA, correlation), multivariate methods (PCA, PLS-DA, sPLS-DA, OPLS-DA), clustering (dendrogram, heatmap, k-means, SOM) and classification (random forest, SVM).

Statistical Analysis [multi factors]

Associations between metabolites and phenotypes adjusted for covariates by linear models, with PCA and heatmaps; two-way ANOVA, ASCA and MEBA for two-factor and time-series designs.

Biomarker Analysis

ROC curve analysis of single biomarkers, and multi-feature panels built with five methods (linear SVM, PLS-DA, random forests, Elastic Net and logistic regression), cross-validated, with clinical covariates as predictors and prediction of new samples.

Study Design & Power

Sample size planning: a priori power from expected effect sizes, or from pilot data by the effect-size model (SSPA), resampling for the planned test, a biomarker learning curve or pathway-level power.

Targeted Metabolomicscompound lists and tables

Targeted Metabolomics
Enrichment Analysis

Metabolite set enrichment analysis of a compound list or a concentration table against about 13,000 metabolite sets: pathways, disease signatures, locations and chemical classes.

Pathway Analysis

Pathway enrichment and topology analysis with interactive visualization for 26 organisms; Joint Pathway Analysis integrates gene expression results of the same conditions.

Network Analysis

Metabolites, genes or KEGG orthologs explored in knowledge-based networks, or debiased sparse partial correlation (DSPC) networks computed from a data table.

Feature Meta-analysis

Consistent features across several studies under comparable conditions, by combining p values, vote counting or merging the data sets.

Global Metabolomicsspectra and MS peaks

Global Metabolomics
Spectra Processing

Raw LC-MS spectra (mzML, mzXML, mzData) processed by an auto-optimized workflow or asari, with DDA or SWATH-DIA MS/MS spectra for compound annotation.

Peak Annotation [MS2]

MS/MS spectra, a single DDA peak list or an MSP file from MS-DIAL or MZmine, annotated against experimental and in silico spectral libraries.

Functional Analysis [LC-MS]

Pathway activity predicted directly from high-resolution MS peaks by mummichog or GSEA, without prior identification, for 26 organisms.

Functional Meta-analysis

Robust functional profiles across global metabolomics studies, by combining the pathway results of independent studies or pooling the peaks of complementary platforms.

Spatial Metabolomics spatial tables and exports

Spatial Metabolomics
Spatial MS Peaks

MALDI or DESI imaging m/z tables with coordinates and regions: Moran's I quality control, tissue maps, pseudobulk comparison of regions, pathway-guided annotation and compound sets.

Spatial Compound Table

Spatial tables of named metabolites or lipids: name mapping, normalization, tissue maps, pseudobulk differential analysis between regions, compound-set maps and enrichment.

Spatial Multi-Omics

Spatial metabolomics with transcriptomics or proteomics of the same section: joint clustering, cross-omic co-localisation, pseudobulk comparison and joint pathway analysis.

Spatial Data Bridge

Exports of SCiLS Lab, METASPACE and 10x Visium converted into the spatial tables; regions derived by segmentation, sections merged or paired with LC-MS data of the same tissue.

Lipidomics lipid tables, spectra and images

Lipidomics
Lipid Annotation [MS2]

Lipid classes and sum-composition species assigned to MS/MS spectra from LipidBlast in silico spectra; molecular species only when the spectrum separates the isomers.

Lipidomics Profiling

A table of lipid species with sample groups: names parsed and normalised, then class composition, chain length and unsaturation, and species statistics.

Lipid Class Enrichment

LIPID MAPS categories, classes and lipid pathways enriched among significant lipids or associated with a concentration table, each name matched at its own level.

Spatial Lipid Annotation [MALDI / DESI]

Imaging m/z matched to lipid species at sum-composition level, summarised as lipid-class tissue maps, regional class statistics and chain length profiles.

Exposomics MS peaks, spectra and compound tables

Exposomics
Exposure Compound Annotation

Suspect screening of MS1 features (PubChemLite, NORMAN SusDat, Blood Exposome Database) with confidence levels, and MS/MS annotation against diet and exposure compounds.

Dose Response Analysis

Dose-response curve fitting for repeated dosing or continuous exposure, with feature-level benchmark doses (BMD) and the metabolomic point of departure.

Exposure & Diet Enrichment

Food intake biomarkers, dietary patterns, food composition, chemical exposures, pollutants and drug pathways enriched among significant compounds or in a concentration table.

Causal Analysis [MR]

Two-sample Mendelian randomization between SNP-tagged metabolites from mGWAS and disease outcomes, with SNP harmonization, MR diagnostics and literature evidence.

Microbiomics spectra, peak tables and paired profiles

Microbiomics
Microbial Metabolite Annotation

MS/MS spectra annotated with gut microbial metabolites (MiMeDB, Exposome-Explorer, KEGG gut bacterial pathways), with the evidence of microbial involvement and source context.

Taxon Marker Screening

Negative-mode LC-MS peak tables screened for the m/z markers of 59 bacterial taxa, with decoy-based significance and group comparison of taxon scores.

Microbial Metabolite Enrichment

Microbial functions, chemical classes, producing genera and gut bacterial pathways enriched among significant compounds or in a concentration table.

Microbiome-Metabolome Integration

Paired microbiome and metabolome profiles: taxon-metabolite correlations weighed against producer and consumer evidence rank candidate microbes, with heatmaps, networks and concordance.

Data utilities: Compound ID Conversion, Batch Effect Correction and Merging Duplicate Records

Training & Pro Services

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