Incorporating peak grouping information for alignment of multiple liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry datasets

Wandy, J., Daly, R. , Breitling, R. and Rogers, S. (2015) Incorporating peak grouping information for alignment of multiple liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry datasets. Bioinformatics, 31(12), pp. 1999-2006. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv072) (PMID:25649621) (PMCID:PMC4760236)

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Abstract

Motivation: The combination of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (LC/MS) has been widely used for large-scale comparative studies in systems biology, including proteomics, glycomics and metabolomics. In almost all experimental design, it is necessary to compare chromatograms across biological or technical replicates and across sample groups. Central to this is the peak alignment step, which is one of the most important but challenging preprocessing steps. Existing alignment tools do not take into account the structural dependencies between related peaks that co-elute and are derived from the same metabolite or peptide. We propose a direct matching peak alignment method for LC/MS data that incorporates related peaks information (within each LC/MS run) and investigate its effect on alignment performance (across runs). The groupings of related peaks necessary for our method can be obtained from any peak clustering method and are built into a pairwise peak similarity score function. The similarity score matrix produced is used by an approximation algorithm for the weighted matching problem to produce the actual alignment result.<p></p> Results: We demonstrate that related peak information can improve alignment performance. The performance is evaluated on a set of benchmark datasets, where our method performs competitively compared to other popular alignment tools.<p></p> Availability: The proposed alignment method has been implemented as a stand-alone application in Python, available for download at http://github.com/joewandy/peak-grouping-alignment.<p></p>

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Rogers, Dr Simon and Breitling, Professor Rainer and Daly, Dr Ronan
Authors: Wandy, J., Daly, R., Breitling, R., and Rogers, S.
College/School:College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Molecular Biosciences
College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
Journal Name:Bioinformatics
Publisher:Oxford University Press
ISSN:1367-4803
ISSN (Online):1460-2059
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2015 The Authors
First Published:First published in Bioinformatics 31(12):1999-2006
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
680241Unifying metabolome and proteome informaticsSimon RogersBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)BB/L018616/1COM - COMPUTING SCIENCE
619351Bayesian Methods for Metabolite Identification and Analysis (ISSF 2012)Simon RogersWellcome Trust (WELLCOME)097821/Z/11/ZCOM - COMPUTING SCIENCE