Revealing metabolite biomarkers for acupuncture treatment by linear programming based feature selection

BMC Systems Biology

Table 2 Identified biomarkers from different meridian points by our LPFS method.

Zusanli ST36			Liangmen ST21			Juliao ST3			Yanglingquan GB34			Weizhong BL40
Metabolite	ppm	ID	Metabolite	ppm	ID	Metabolite	ppm	ID	Metabolite	ppm	ID	Metabolite	ppm	ID
	3.55	86		2.11	230		3.55	86		3.55	86		3.78	63
a-glucose/glycine	3.54	87		0.88	353	a-glucose/glycine	3.54	87	a-glucose/glycine	3.54	87		3.99	42
	3.49	92	histidine/taurine	3.25	116				threonine	1.32	309		3.88	53
lactate	1.33	308		3.55	86							lipid	1.3	311
			lactate	1.33	308							lysine/arginine	1.91	250
			a-glucose/glycine	3.54	87								3.92	49
				3.2	121								3.49	92
													3.2	121

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