Abstract
In this paper, we address the issue of peptide ion peak detection for high resolution time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) data. A novel Bayesian peptide ion peak detection method is proposed for TOF data with resolution of 10\thinspace 00015\thinspace 000 full width at half-maximum (FWHW). MS spectra exhibit distinct characteristics at this resolution, which are captured in a novel parametric model. Based on the proposed parametric model, a Bayesian peak detection algorithm based on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling is developed. The proposed algorithm is tested on both simulated and real datasets. The results show a significant improvement in detection performance over a commonly employed method. The results also agree with expert's visual inspection. Moreover, better detection consistency is achieved across MS datasets from patients with identical pathological condition.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 5549940 |
Pages (from-to) | 5883-5894 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2010 |
Keywords
- Bayesian methods
- Markov chain Monte Carlo
- mass spectrometry
- peptide peak detection
- time-of-flight
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Signal Processing