Critical assessment of alignment procedures for LC-MS proteomics and metabolomics measurements |
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Authors: | Eva Lange Ralf Tautenhahn Steffen Neumann Clemens Gröpl |
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Affiliation: | (1) Beatson Institute for Cancer ResearchProteomics and Mass Spectrometry Group, Scotland, UK;(2) Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Bioinformatics and Mass Spectrometry, Halle, Germany;(3) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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Abstract: | Background Liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has become a prominent tool for the analysis of complex proteomics and metabolomics samples. In many applications multiple LC-MS measurements need to be compared, e. g. to improve reliability or to combine results from different samples in a statistical comparative analysis. As in all physical experiments, LC-MS data are affected by uncertainties, and variability of retention time is encountered in all data sets. It is therefore necessary to estimate and correct the underlying distortions of the retention time axis to search for corresponding compounds in different samples. To this end, a variety of so-called LC-MS map alignment algorithms have been developed during the last four years. Most of these approaches are well documented, but they are usually evaluated on very specific samples only. So far, no publication has been assessing different alignment algorithms using a standard LC-MS sample along with commonly used quality criteria. |
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