Publication
Title
Unsupervised quality assessment of mass spectrometry proteomics experiments by multivariate quality control metrics
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Abstract
Despite many technological and computational advances, the results of a mass spectrometry proteomics experiment are still subject to a large variability. For the understanding and evaluation of how technical variability affects the results of an experiment, several computationally derived quality control metrics have been introduced. However, despite the availability of these metrics, a systematic approach to quality control is often still lacking because the metrics are not fully understood and are hard to interpret. Here, we present a toolkit of powerful techniques to analyze and interpret multivariate quality control metrics to assess the quality of mass spectrometry proteomics experiments. We show how unsupervised techniques applied to these quality control metrics can provide an initial discrimination between low-quality experiments and high-quality experiments prior to manual investigation. Furthermore, we provide a technique to obtain detailed information on the quality control metrics that are related to the decreased performance, which can be used as actionable information to improve the experimental setup. Our toolkit is released as open-source and can be downloaded from https://bitbucket.org/proteinspector/qc_analysis/.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of proteome research. - -
Publication
2016
ISSN
1535-3893
DOI
10.1021/ACS.JPROTEOME.6B00028
Volume/pages
15 :4 (2016) , p. 1300-1307
ISI
000373519900019
Pubmed ID
26974716
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 09.10.2023
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