Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics
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Sandra Morandell

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• Research Article
  Improving Phosphopeptide/Protein Identification Using a New Data Mining Framework for MS/MS Spectra Preprocessing
  Author(s): Fabio R. Cerqueira, Sandra Morandell, Stefan Ascher, Karl Mechtler, Lukas A. Huber, Bernhard Pfeifer, Armin Graber, Bernhard Tilg and Christian Baumgartner Fabio R. Cerqueira, Sandra Morandell, Stefan Ascher, Karl Mechtler, Lukas A. Huber, Bernhard Pfeifer, Armin Graber, Bernhard Tilg and Christian Baumgartner
  
  Phosphopeptide/protein identification using tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is a challenging issue in proteomics research. In particular, phosphopeptides typically exhibit low intensity peaks of b and y ions in spectra when serine or threonine is phosphorylated. Consequently, the existing algorithms for peptide and protein identification generate a high false discovery rate when coping with phosphopeptide spectra. In order to increase the number of correct phosphopeptide identifications using database search, a new data mining approach for spectra preprocessing is proposed. A support vector machine classifier is used to calculate the probability of each peak representing a b or y ion. Next, low-probability peaks are removed from spectra, while remaining peaks have their intensities enhanced. As a result, a huge increase in signal-to-noise ratio is provided and the ch.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/jpb.1000072

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