Peptide charge state determination for low-resolution tandem mass spectra
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Abstract
Mass spectrometry is a particularly useful technology for the rapid and robust identification of peptides and proteins in complex mixtures. Peptide sequences can be identified by correlating their observed tandem mass spectra (MS/MS) with theoretical spectra of peptides from a sequence database. Unfortunately, to perform this search the charge of the peptide must be known, and current chargestate- determination algorithms only discriminate singlyfrom multiply-charged spectra: distinguishing +2 from +3, for example, is unreliable. Thus, search software is forced to search multiply-charged spectra multiple times. To minimize this inefficiency, we present a support vector machine (SVM) that quickly and reliably classifies multiplycharged spectra as having either a +2 or +3 precursor peptide ion. By classifying multiply-charged spectra, we obtain a 40% reduction in search time while maintaining an average of 99% of peptide and 99% of protein identifications originally obtained from these spectra.
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