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DIAlignR Provides Precise Retention Time Alignment Across Distant Runs in DIA and Targeted Proteomics.

ABSTRACT: Sequential Windowed Acquisition of All Theoretical Fragment Ion Mass Spectra (SWATH-MS) is widely used for proteomics analysis given its high throughput and reproducibility, but ensuring consistent quantification of analytes across large-scale studies of heterogeneous samples such as human plasma remains challenging. Heterogeneity in large-scale studies can be caused by large time intervals between data acquisition, acquisition by different operators or instruments, and intermittent repair or replacement of parts, such as the liquid chromatography column, all of which affect retention time (RT) reproducibility and, successively, performance of SWATH-MS data analysis. Here, we present a novel algorithm for RT alignment of SWATH-MS data based on direct alignment of raw MS2 chromatograms using a hybrid dynamic programming approach. The algorithm does not impose a chronological order of elution and allows for alignment of elution-order-swapped peaks. Furthermore, allowing RT mapping in a certain window around a coarse global fit makes it robust against noise. On a manually validated dataset, this strategy outperformed the current state-of-the-art approaches. In addition, on real-world clinical data, our approach outperformed global alignment methods by mapping 98% of peaks compared with 67% cumulatively. DIAlignR reduced alignment error up to 30-fold for extremely distant runs. The robustness of technical parameters used in this pairwise alignment strategy is also demonstrated. The source code is released under the BSD license at https://github.com/Roestlab/DIAlignR.

SUBMITTER: Gupta S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6442363 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Project description:BACKGROUND: Modern analytical methods in biology and chemistry use separation techniques coupled to sensitive detectors, such as gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). These hyphenated methods provide high-dimensional data. Comparing such data manually to find corresponding signals is a laborious task, as each experiment usually consists of thousands of individual scans, each containing hundreds or even thousands of distinct signals. In order to allow for successful identification of metabolites or proteins within such data, especially in the context of metabolomics and proteomics, an accurate alignment and matching of corresponding features between two or more experiments is required. Such a matching algorithm should capture fluctuations in the chromatographic system which lead to non-linear distortions on the time axis, as well as systematic changes in recorded intensities. Many different algorithms for the retention time alignment of GC-MS and LC-MS data have been proposed and published, but all of them focus either on aligning previously extracted peak features or on aligning and comparing the complete raw data containing all available features. RESULTS: In this paper we introduce two algorithms for retention time alignment of multiple GC-MS datasets: multiple alignment by bidirectional best hits peak assignment and cluster extension (BIPACE) and center-star multiple alignment by pairwise partitioned dynamic time warping (CeMAPP-DTW). We show how the similarity-based peak group matching method BIPACE may be used for multiple alignment calculation individually and how it can be used as a preprocessing step for the pairwise alignments performed by CeMAPP-DTW. We evaluate the algorithms individually and in combination on a previously published small GC-MS dataset studying the Leishmania parasite and on a larger GC-MS dataset studying grains of wheat (Triticum aestivum). CONCLUSIONS: We have shown that BIPACE achieves very high precision and recall and a very low number of false positive peak assignments on both evaluation datasets. CeMAPP-DTW finds a high number of true positives when executed on its own, but achieves even better results when BIPACE is used to constrain its search space. The source code of both algorithms is included in the OpenSource software framework Maltcms, which is available from http://maltcms.sf.net. The evaluation scripts of the present study are available from the same source.

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