A novel scoring schema for peptide identification by searching protein sequence databases using tandem mass spectrometry data

Background: Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is a powerful tool for protein identification. Although great efforts have been made in scoring the correlation between tandem mass spectra and an amino acid sequence database, improvements could be made in three aspects, including characterization ofpeaks in spectra, adoption of effective scoring functions and access to thereliability of matching between peptides and spectra. Results: A novel scoring function is presented, along with criteria to estimate the performance confidence of the function. Through learning the typesof product ions and the probability of generating them, a hypothetic spectrum was generated for each candidate peptide. Then relative entropy was introduced to measure the similarity between the hypothetic and the observed spectra. Based on the extreme value distribution (EVD) theory, a threshold was chosen to distinguish a true peptide assignment from a random one. Tests on a public MS/MS dataset demonstrated that this ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Zhuo Zhang, Shiwei Sun, Xiaopeng Zhu, Suhua Chang, Xiaofei Liu, Chungong Yu, Dongbo Bu, Runsheng Chen
• Keywords: BMCBI 2006, Peptide, Tandem Mass, Tandem Mass Spectrometry