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De novo correction of mass measurement error in low resolution tandem MS spectra for shotgun proteomics
Jarrett D Egertson1, Jimmy K Eng, Michael S Bereman
1Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Abstract:
We report an algorithm designed for the calibration of low resolution peptide mass spectra. Our algorithm is implemented in a program called FineTune, which corrects systematic mass measurement error in 1 min, with no input required besides the mass spectra themselves. The mass measurement accuracy for a set of spectra collected on an LTQ-Velos improved 20-fold from -0.1776 ± 0.0010 m/z to 0.0078 ± 0.0006 m/z after calibration (avg ± 95 % confidence interval). The precision in mass measurement was improved due to the correction of non-linear variation in mass measurement accuracy across the m/z range.
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