False discovery rate estimation for cross-linked peptides identified by mass spectrometry.

Walzthoeni, Thomas; Claassen, Manfred; Leitner, Alexander; Herzog, Franz; Bohn, Stefan; Förster, Friedrich; Beck, Martin; Aebersold, Ruedi · Nat Methods · 2012

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Abstract

The mass spectrometric identification of chemically cross-linked peptides (CXMS) specifies spatial restraints of protein complexes; these values complement data obtained from common structure-determination techniques. Generic methods for determining false discovery rates of cross-linked peptide assignments are currently lacking, thus making data sets from CXMS studies inherently incomparable. Here we describe an automated target-decoy strategy and the software tool xProphet, which solve this problem for large multicomponent protein complexes.

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