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Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on August 30, 2007
Bioinformatics 2007 23(22):3065-3072; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm415
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Intersession reproducibility of mass spectrometry profiles and its effect on accuracy of multivariate classification models

Richard Pelikan 1,2,3,*, William L. Bigbee 4, David Malehorn 4, James Lyons-Weiler 3,4,5 and Milos Hauskrecht 1,2,3,4

1Department of Computer Science, 2Intelligent Systems Program, 3Department of Biomedical Informatics, 4University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and 5Genomics and Proteomics Core Laboratories, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed.


  Abstract

Motivation: The ‘reproducibility’ of mass spectrometry proteomic profiling has become an intensely controversial topic. The mere mention of concern over the ‘reproducibility’ of data generated from any particular platform can lead to the anxiety over the generalizability of its results and its role in the future of discovery proteomics. In this study, we examine the reproducibility of proteomic profiles generated by surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS) across multiple data-generation sessions. We analyze the problem in terms of the reproducibility of signals, reproducibility of discriminative features and reproducibility of multivariate classification models on profiles for serum samples from early lung cancer and healthy control subjects.

Results: Proteomic profiles in individual data-generation sessions experience within-session variability. We show that combining data from multiple sessions introduces additional (inter-session) noise. While additional noise can affect the discriminative analysis, we show that its average effect on profiles in our study is relatively small. Moreover, for the purposes of prediction on future (previously unseen) data, classifiers trained on multi-session data are able to adapt to inter-session noise and improve their classification accuracy.

Contact: milos{at}cs.pitt.edu

Associate Editor: Jonathan Wren

Received on May 25, 2007; revised on July 31, 2007; accepted on August 9, 2007

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