Rapid discrimination of glycogen particles originated from different eukaryotic organisms.

Journal: International journal of biological macromolecules
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Abstract

There are many commercially available glycogen particles in the market due to their bioactive functions as food additive, drug carrier and natural moisturizer, etc. It would be beneficial to rapidly determine the origins of commercially-available glycogen particles, which could facilitate the establishment of quality control methodology for glycogen-containing products. With its non-destructive, label-free and low-cost features, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is an attractive technique with high potential to discriminate chemical compounds in a rapid mode. In this study, we applied the combination of SERS technique and machine leaning algorithms on glycogen analysis, which successfully predicted the origins of glycogen particles from a variety of organisms with convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm plus attention mechanism having the best computational performance (5-fold cross validation accuracy = 96.97 %). In sum, this is the first study focusing on the discrimination of commercial glycogen particles originated from different organisms, which holds the application potential in quality control of glycogen-containing products.

Authors

  • Jia-Wei Tang
    Department of Intelligent Medical Engineering, School of Medical Informatics and Engineering, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
  • Rui Qiao
    Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
  • Xue-Song Xiong
    Laboratory Medicine, The Fifth People's Hospital of Huai'an, Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, China.
  • Bing-Xin Tang
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical Technology School, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
  • You-Wei He
    School of Life Sciences, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
  • Ying-Ying Yang
    Division of Clinical Skills Training and High-fidelity Medical Simulation for Holistic Care and Inter-Professional Collaboration, Department of Medical Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Pei Ju
    School of Life Sciences, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
  • Peng-Bo Wen
    Department of Intelligent Medical Engineering, School of Medical Informatics and Engineering, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. Electronic address: wen_pengbo@foxmail.com.
  • Xiao Zhang
    Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA.
  • Liang Wang
    Information Department, Dazhou Central Hospital, Dazhou 635000, China.