The necessity of adjusting tests of protein category enrichment in discovery proteomics.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Enrichment tests are used in high-throughput experimentation to measure the association between gene or protein expression and membership in groups or pathways. The Fisher's exact test is commonly used. We specifically examined the associations produced by the Fisher test between protein identification by mass spectrometry discovery proteomics, and their Gene Ontology (GO) term assignments in a large yeast dataset. We found that direct application of the Fisher test is misleading in proteomics due to the bias in mass spectrometry to preferentially identify proteins based on their biochemical properties. False inference about associations can be made if this bias is not corrected. Our method adjusts Fisher tests for these biases and produces associations more directly att

SUBMITTER: Louie B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2995116 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature