Improving the TFold test for differential shotgun proteomics

Bioinformatics. 2012 Jun 15;28(12):1652-4. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts247. Epub 2012 Apr 26.

Abstract

We present an updated version of the TFold software for pinpointing differentially expressed proteins in shotgun proteomics experiments. Given an FDR bound, the updated approach uses a theoretical FDR estimator to maximize the number of identifications that satisfy both a fold-change cutoff that varies with the t-test P-value as a power law and a stringency criterion that aims to detect lowly abundant proteins. The new version has yielded significant improvements in sensitivity over the previous one.

Availability: Freely available for academic use at http://pcarvalho.com/patternlab.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Computational Biology / methods
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Humans
  • Proteins / analysis*
  • Proteomics / methods*
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface

Substances

  • Proteins