An averaging strategy to reduce variability in target-decoy estimates of false discovery rate

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Abstract

Abstract Decoy database search with target-decoy competition (TDC) provides an intuitive, easy-to-implement method for estimating the false discovery rate (FDR) associated with spectrum identifications from shotgun proteomics data. However, the procedure can yield different results for a fixed dataset analyzed with different decoy databases, and this decoy-induced variability is particularly problematic for smaller FDR thresholds, datasets or databases. In such cases, the nominal FDR might be 1% but the true proportion of false discoveries might be 10%. The averaged TDC protocol combats this problem by exploiting multiple independently shuffled decoy databases to provide an FDR estimate with reduced variability. We provide a tutorial introduction to aTDC, describe an improved variant of the protocol that offers increased statistical power, and discuss how to deploy aTDC in practice using the Crux software toolkit.

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