| Literature DB >> 30560673 |
Uri Keich1, Kaipo Tamura2, William Stafford Noble2,3.
Abstract
Decoy database search with target-decoy competition (TDC) provides an intuitive, easy-to-implement method for estimating the false discovery rate (FDR) associated with spectrum identifications from shotgun proteomics data. However, the procedure can yield different results for a fixed data set analyzed with different decoy databases, and this decoy-induced variability is particularly problematic for smaller FDR thresholds, data sets, or databases. The average TDC (aTDC) protocol combats this problem by exploiting multiple independently shuffled decoy databases to provide an FDR estimate with reduced variability. We provide a tutorial introduction to aTDC, describe an improved variant of the protocol that offers increased statistical power, and discuss how to deploy aTDC in practice using the Crux software toolkit.Entities:
Keywords: false discovery rate; mass spectrometry; spectrum identification
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Year: 2019 PMID: 30560673 PMCID: PMC6919216 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.8b00802
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Proteome Res ISSN: 1535-3893 Impact factor: 4.466