Project description:Quality control (QC) in mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics is mainly based on data-dependent acquisition (DDA) analysis of standard samples. Here, we collected 2638 files acquired by data independent acquisition (DIA) and paired DDA files from mouse liver digests using 21 mass spectrometers across nine laboratories over 31 months. Our data demonstrated that DIA-based LC-MS/MS-related consensus QC metric exhibit higher sensitivity compared to DDA-based QC metric in detecting changes in LC-MS status. We then optimized 15 metrics and invited 21 experts to manually assess the quality of 2638 DIA files based on those metrics. Based on the annotation results, we developed an AI model for DIA-based QC in the training set of 2110 DIA files. This model predicted the liquid chromatography (LC) performance with an AUC of 0.91 and the MS performance with an AUC of 0.97 in an independent validation dataset (n = 528). Finally, we developed an offline software called iDIA-QC for convenient adoption of this methodology for LC-MS QC.
Project description:DIALib-QC (DIA library quality control) tool is used for the systematic evaluation of a spectral library’s characteristics, completeness and mass-accuracy ensuring correct identification and accurate quantitation of peptides and proteins from DIA/SWATH processing tools.
Project description:Every laboratory performing mass spectrometry based proteomics strives to generate high quality data. Among the many factors that influence the outcome of any experiment in proteomics is performance of the LC-MS system, which should be monitored continuously. This process is termed quality control (QC). We present an easy to use, rapid tool, which produces a visual, HTML based report that includes the key parameters needed to monitor LC-MS system perfromance. The tool, named RawBeans, can generate a report for individual files, or for a set of samples from a whole experiment. We anticipate it will help proteomics users and experts evaluate raw data quality, independent of data processing. The tool is available here: https://bitbucket.org/incpm/prot-qc/downloads.
Project description:Microarray technology provides a powerful tool for defining gene expression profiles of airway epithelium that lend insight into the pathogenesis of human airway disorders. The focus of this study was to establish rigorous quality control parameters to ensure that microarray assessment of the airway epithelium is not confounded by experimental artifact. Samples (total n=223) of trachea, large and small airway epithelium were collected by fiberoptic bronchoscopy of 144 individuals (42 healthy non-smokers, 49 healthy smokers, 11 symptomatic smokers, 22 smokers with lone emphysema with normal spirometry, and 20 smokers with COPD) were processed and hybridized to Affymetrix HG-U133 2.0 Plus microarrays. The pre- and post-chip quality control (QC) criteria established, included: (1) RNA quality, assessed by RNA Integrity Number (RIN) ≥7.0 using Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer software; (2) cRNA transcript integrity, assessed by signal intensity ratio of GAPDH 3' to 5' probe sets ≤3.0; and (3) the multi-chip normalization scaling factor ≤10.0 Of the 223 samples, 213 (95.5%) passed the QC criteria. In a data set of 34 arrays (10 samples failing QC criteria, 24 randomly chosen samples passing QC criteria), correlation coefficients for pairwise comparisons of expression levels for 100 housekeeping genes in which at least one array failed the QC criteria were significantly lower (average Pearson r = 0.90 ± 0.04) and more broadly dispersed than correlation coefficients for pairwise comparisons between any two arrays that passed the QC criteria (average Pearson r = 0.97 ± 0.01). By using the QC cutoff criteria, the inter-array variability, as assessed by the coefficient of variation in the expression levels for 100 housekeeping genes, was reduced from 35.7% to 21.7%. Based on the aberrant housekeeping gene data generated from samples failing the established QC criteria, we propose that the QC criteria outlined in this study can accurately distinguish high quality from low quality data and can be used to delete poor quality microarray samples before proceeding to higher-order biological analyses and interpretation.
Project description:miRTrace is a tool for quality control and tracing taxonomic origins of microRNA sequencing data. It operates in two modes: Trace mode, in which the software reports the composition of clade-specific miRNAs; and QC mode, in which it performed an all-round quality control. To validate the QC mode of the software, we subjected the in-house control samples from HEK-293T cells to various treatments, such as cross-species contamiantion with Drosophila S2 RNAs, sample dilution and RNase A digestion. These samples were processed using QC mode of miRTrace. We demonstrate that miRTrace accurately identities poor-quality samples and to some extent even the causes of the compromised quality.