scholarly journals A Heuristic Method for Assigning a False-discovery Rate for Protein Identifications from Mascot Database Search Results

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 762-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Brent Weatherly ◽  
James A. Atwood ◽  
Todd A. Minning ◽  
Cameron Cavola ◽  
Rick L. Tarleton ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uri Keich ◽  
Kaipo Tamura ◽  
William Stafford Noble

AbstractDecoy 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.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Lin ◽  
Deanna L. Plubell ◽  
Uri Keich ◽  
William S. Noble

AbstractThe standard proteomics database search strategy involves searching spectra against a peptide database and estimating the false discovery rate (FDR) of the resulting set of peptide-spectrum matches. One assumption of this protocol is that all the peptides in the database are relevant to the hypothesis being investigated. However, in settings where researchers are interested in a subset of peptides, alternative search and FDR control strategies are needed. Recently, two methods were proposed to address this problem: subset-search and all-sub. We show that both methods fail to control the FDR. For subset-search, this failure is due to the presence of “neighbor” peptides, which are defined as irrelevant peptides with a similar precursor mass and fragmentation spectrum as a relevant peptide. Not considering neighbors compromises the FDR estimate because a spectrum generated by an irrelevant peptide can incorrectly match well to a relevant peptide. Therefore, we have developed a new method, “filter then subsetneighbor search” (FSNS), that accounts for neighbor peptides. We show evidence that FSNS properly controls the FDR when neighbors are present and that FSNS outperforms group-FDR, the only other method able to control the FDR relative to a subset of relevant peptides.


Genetics ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 164 (2) ◽  
pp. 829-833
Author(s):  
Chiara Sabatti ◽  
Susan Service ◽  
Nelson Freimer

Abstract We explore the implications of the false discovery rate (FDR) controlling procedure in disease gene mapping. With the aid of simulations, we show how, under models commonly used, the simple step-down procedure introduced by Benjamini and Hochberg controls the FDR for the dependent tests on which linkage and association genome screens are based. This adaptive multiple comparison procedure may offer an important tool for mapping susceptibility genes for complex diseases.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. iii71-iii71
Author(s):  
T Kaisman-Elbaz ◽  
Y Elbaz ◽  
V Merkin ◽  
L Dym ◽  
A Noy ◽  
...  

Abstract BACKGROUND Glioblastoma is known for its dismal prognosis though its dependency on patients’ readily available RBCs parameters defining the patient’s anemic status such as hemoglobin level and Red blood cells distribution Width (RDW) is not fully established. Several works demonstrated a connection between low hemoglobin level or high RDW values to overall glioblastoma patient’s survival, but in other works, a clear connection was not found. This study addresses this unclarity. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this work, 170 glioblastoma patients, diagnosed and treated in Soroka University Medical Center (SUMC) in the last 12 years were retrospectively inspected for their survival dependency on pre-operative RBCs parameters using multivariate analysis followed by false discovery rate procedure due to the multiple hypothesis testing. A survival stratification tree and Kaplan-Meier survival curves that indicate the patient’s prognosis according to these parameters were prepared. RESULTS Beside KPS>70 and tumor resection supplemented by oncological treatment, age<70 (HR=0.4, 95% CI 0.24–0.65), low hemoglobin level (HR=1.79, 95% CI 1.06–2.99) and RDW<14% (HR=0.57, 95% CI 0.37–0.88) were found to be prognostic to patients’ overall survival in multivariate analysis, accounting for false discovery rate of less than 5%. CONCLUSION A survival stratification highlighted a non-anemic subgroup of nearly 30% of the cohort’s patients whose median overall survival was 21.1 months (95% CI 16.2–27.2) - higher than the average Stupp protocol overall median survival of about 15 months. A discussion on the beneficial or detrimental effect of RBCs parameters on glioblastoma prognosis and its possible causes is given.


2020 ◽  
Vol 223 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Jingjing Zhu ◽  
Chong Wu ◽  
Lang Wu

Abstract It is critical to identify potential causal targets for SARS-CoV-2, which may guide drug repurposing options. We assessed the associations between genetically predicted protein levels and COVID-19 severity. Leveraging data from the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative comparing 6492 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and 1 012 809 controls, we identified 18 proteins with genetically predicted levels to be associated with COVID-19 severity at a false discovery rate of &lt;0.05, including 12 that showed an association even after Bonferroni correction. Of the 18 proteins, 6 showed positive associations and 12 showed inverse associations. In conclusion, we identified 18 candidate proteins for COVID-19 severity.


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