COVID-19 Research Paper Volume 13, Issue 17 pp 20860—20885

Figure 2. Identification of metabolites discriminating cancer patients by clinical severity of SARS-CoV-2. (A) Volcano plot comparing mild with moderate/severe Covid-19 patients, classified by chemical classes. X-axis: log² fold change of metabolites; Y-axis: fold change of –log¹⁰ P value determined by the Mann–Whitney test. (B) Random forest classification model based on metabolites altered (p < 0.05) between mild and moderate/severe Covid-19 cases. The downregulated and upregulated metabolites in mild compared to moderate/severe patients are marked in blue and red, respectively. (C) Indole-3-propionic acid and 3-phenylproprionic levels in patients. All boxes indicate the interquartile range Q1 to Q3 with Q2 (median levels) in the center. The range of outliers is depicted by whiskers. The black bar of the figure indicates the p-value.