Figure 3

Three-way comparison of metabolite profiles. (a) Absolute × relative three-way comparison of metabolite profiles shown in Figure 2. Averages of replicate datasets (n = 5) were used for the three-way comparison. The resulting dataset was filtered using F-ratio (one-way ANOVA) to select only statistically significant differences as described in the main text. (b) The Control dataset (Figure 2a) was overlaid on the three-way comparison result shown in panel (a) via the brightness value. Darkening of the colored spots indicates the size of the corresponding peaks in the Control dataset. Gray spots show peaks which do not significantly differ among the datasets. For both plots, numbered ovals (annotation labels) indicate the expected locations of peaks of a set of known chemical compounds and are used for identification of metabolites on the density plots [2,3].