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Improving Peptide-Level Mass Spectrometry Analysis via Double Competition.


ABSTRACT: The analysis of shotgun proteomics data often involves generating lists of inferred peptide-spectrum matches (PSMs) and/or of peptides. The canonical approach for generating these discovery lists is by controlling the false discovery rate (FDR), most commonly through target-decoy competition (TDC). At the PSM level, TDC is implemented by competing each spectrum's best-scoring target (real) peptide match with its best match against a decoy database. This PSM-level procedure can be adapted to the peptide level by selecting the top-scoring PSM per peptide prior to FDR estimation. Here, we first highlight and empirically augment a little known previous work by He et al., which showed that TDC-based PSM-level FDR estimates can be liberally biased. We thus propose that researchers instead focus on peptide-level analysis. We then investigate three ways to carry out peptide-level TDC and show that the most common method ("PSM-only") offers the lowest statistical power in practice. An alternative approach that carries out a double competition, first at the PSM and then at the peptide level ("PSM-and-peptide"), is the most powerful method, yielding an average increase of 17% more discovered peptides at 1% FDR threshold relative to the PSM-only method.

SUBMITTER: Lin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10108709 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Improving Peptide-Level Mass Spectrometry Analysis via Double Competition.

Lin Andy A   Short Temana T   Noble William Stafford WS   Keich Uri U  

Journal of proteome research 20220927 10


The analysis of shotgun proteomics data often involves generating lists of inferred peptide-spectrum matches (PSMs) and/or of peptides. The canonical approach for generating these discovery lists is by controlling the false discovery rate (FDR), most commonly through target-decoy competition (TDC). At the PSM level, TDC is implemented by competing each spectrum's best-scoring target (real) peptide match with its best match against a decoy database. This PSM-level procedure can be adapted to the  ...[more]

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