Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on July 24, 2008
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn385
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An Integrated Approach for Automating Validation of Extracted Ion Chromatographic Peaks
Departments of 1Biology, 2Statistics, and 3Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. William D. Nelson, E-mail: wnels2{at}uky.edu
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Summary: Accurate determination of extracted ion chromatographic peak areas in isotope labeled quantitative proteomics is difficult to automate. Manual validation of identified peaks is typically required. We have integrated a peak confidence scoring algorithm into existing tools which are compatible with analysis pipelines based on the standards from the Institute for Systems Biology. This algorithm automatically excludes incorrectly identified peaks, improving the accuracy of the final protein expression ratio calculation.
Contact: wnels2{at}uky.edu
Source and Supplementary Information: http://www.chem.uky.edu/research/lynn/Nelson.pdf
Associate Editor: Prof. David Rocke
Received on March 21, 2008; revised on July 18, 2008; accepted on July 22, 2008