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Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on November 17, 2007
Bioinformatics 2008 24(2):202-208; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm555
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A hierarchical statistical model to assess the confidence of peptides and proteins inferred from tandem mass spectrometry

Changyu Shen 1,*, Zhiping Wang 1, Ganesh Shankar 1, Xiang Zhang 2 and Lang Li 1

1Division of Biostatistics, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202 and 2Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed.


  Abstract

Motivation: Statistical evaluation of the confidence of peptide and protein identifications made by tandem mass spectrometry is a critical component for appropriately interpreting the experimental data and conducting downstream analysis. Although many approaches have been developed to assign confidence measure from different perspectives, a unified statistical framework that integrates the uncertainty of peptides and proteins is still missing.

Results: We developed a hierarchical statistical model (HSM) that jointly models the uncertainty of the identified peptides and proteins and can be applied to any scoring system. With data sets of a standard mixture and the yeast proteome, we demonstrate that the HSM offers a reliable or at least conservative false discovery rate (FDR) estimate for peptide and protein identifications. The probability measure of HSM also offers a powerful discriminating score for peptide identification.

Availability: The algorithm is available upon request from the authors.

Contact: chashen{at}iupui.edu

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Associate Editor: Olga Troyanskaya

Received on June 25, 2007; revised on October 4, 2007; accepted on November 1, 2007

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