MS-Simulator: predicting y-ion intensities for peptides with two charges based on the intensity ratio of neighboring ions.
For the identification of peptides with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS), many software tools rely on the comparison between an experimental spectrum and a theoretically predicted spectrum. Consequently, the accurate prediction of the theoretical spectrum from a peptide sequence can potentially improve the peptide identification performance and is an important problem for mass spectrometry based proteomics. In this study a new approach, called MS-Simulator, is presented for predicting the y-ion intensities in the spectrum of a given peptide. The new approach focuses on the accurate prediction of the relative intensity ratio between every two adjacent y-ions. The theoretical spectrum can then be derived from these ratios. The prediction of a ratio is a closed-form equation that involves up to five consecutive amino acids nearby the two y-ions and the two peptide termini. Compared with another existing spectrum prediction tool MassAnalyzer, the new approach not only simplifies the computation, but also improves the prediction accuracy.
Advanced Research Laboratory, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Shiwei
S
Sun
Fuquan
F
Yang
Qing
Q
Yang
Hong
H
Zhang
Yaojun
Y
Wang
Dongbo
D
Bu
Bin
B
Ma
D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D007477:Ions / Q000737:chemistry; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry*; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein
D007477:Ions; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011506:Proteins