Spectral probabilities of top-down tandem mass spectra.
Title | Spectral probabilities of top-down tandem mass spectra. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Liu X, Segar MW, Li SCheng, Kim S |
Journal | BMC Genomics |
Abstract | BACKGROUND: In mass spectrometry-based proteomics, the statistical significance of a peptide-spectrum or protein-spectrum match is an important indicator of the correctness of the peptide or protein identification. In bottom-up mass spectrometry, probabilistic models, such as the generating function method, have been successfully applied to compute the statistical significance of peptide-spectrum matches for short peptides containing no post-translational modifications. As top-down mass spectrometry, which often identifies intact proteins with post-translational modifications, becomes available in many laboratories, the estimation of statistical significance of top-down protein identification results has come into great demand. RESULTS: In this paper, we study an extended generating function method for accurately computing the statistical significance of protein-spectrum matches with post-translational modifications. Experiments show that the extended generating function method achieves high accuracy in computing spectral probabilities and false discovery rates. CONCLUSIONS: The extended generating function method is a non-trivial extension of the generating function method for bottom-up mass spectrometry. It can be used to choose the correct protein-spectrum match from several candidate protein-spectrum matches for a spectrum, as well as separate correct protein-spectrum matches from incorrect ones identified from a large number of tandem mass spectra. |
DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-15-S1-S9 |
Alternate Journal | BMC Genomics |
PubMed ID | 24564718 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC4046700 |