Table 3.

Details from Five Datasets Processed to Completion To Investigate Functionality of Flagging Features

post-processor parameter	Study 17	Study 10	Study 28	Study 03	Study 16	mean	removed, joined
number of samples	23	100	22	302	17	93
adducts automatcheda	19	45	33	119	8	45
flagged adductsb	24	63	6	21	2	23
flagged adducts joinedb	20	57	5	20	1	21	89%
total adducts joined	39	102	38	139	9	65	96%
duplicates autoremovedc	0	34	2	2	0	8
duplicate peaks flagged	1	19	1	17	4	8
flagged duplicates removed	0	17	1	17	2	7	88%
duplicate peaks removed	0	51	3	19	2	15	94%
isotopes flaggeda	8	57	28	29	1	25
total isotopes removed	7	54	25	18	1	21	85%
total flagged features	33	139	35	67	7	56
total flagged removed features	27	128	31	55	4	49	87%
features before MS-FLO	744	1364	498	841	181	726
features after MS-FLO	698	1156	432	665	169	624
total rows removed	46	208d	66	176	12	102	14%

^aCutoff: R² ≥ 0.8.

^bR² < 0.8.

^cSimilarity ≥85%.

^dOne contaminate ion feature removed.