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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 7:1135-1145, 2008.
© 2008 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Properties of Average Score Distributions of SEQUEST

The Probability Ratio Method^*,S

Salvador Martínez-Bartolomé^,,¶, Pedro Navarro^,, Fernando Martín-Maroto^,||, Daniel López-Ferrer^,**, Antonio Ramos-Fernández^,¶, Margarita Villar^,, Josefa P. García-Ruiz and Jesús Vázquez^,

From the Protein Chemistry and Proteomics Laboratory, Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa"-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain and ^|| ThermoElectron Corp., San Jose, California 95134

High throughput identification of peptides in databases from tandem mass spectrometry data is a key technique in modern proteomics. Common approaches to interpret large scale peptide identification results are based on the statistical analysis of average score distributions, which are constructed from the set of best scores produced by large collections of MS/MS spectra by using searching engines such as SEQUEST. Other approaches calculate individual peptide identification probabilities on the basis of theoretical models or from single-spectrum score distributions constructed by the set of scores produced by each MS/MS spectrum. In this work, we study the mathematical properties of average SEQUEST score distributions by introducing the concept of spectrum quality and expressing these average distributions as compositions of single-spectrum distributions. We predict and demonstrate in the practice that average score distributions are dominated by the quality distribution in the spectra collection, except in the low probability region, where it is possible to predict the dependence of average probability on database size. Our analysis leads to a novel indicator, the probability ratio, which takes optimally into account the statistical information provided by the first and second best scores. The probability ratio is a non-parametric and robust indicator that makes spectra classification according to parameters such as charge state unnecessary and allows a peptide identification performance, on the basis of false discovery rates, that is better than that obtained by other empirical statistical approaches. The probability ratio also compares favorably with statistical probability indicators obtained by the construction of single-spectrum SEQUEST score distributions. These results make the robustness, conceptual simplicity, and ease of automation of the probability ratio algorithm a very attractive alternative to determine peptide identification confidences and error rates in high throughput experiments.

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