Learning from decoys to improve the sensitivity and specificity of proteomics database search results.

The statistical validation of database search results is a complex issue in bottom-up proteomics. The correct and incorrect peptide spectrum match (PSM) scores overlap significantly, making an accurate assessment of true peptide matches challenging. Since the complete separation between the true and...

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Main Authors: Amit Kumar Yadav, Dhirendra Kumar, Debasis Dash
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3506577?pdf=render