Link to bioRxiv paper:
http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.04.10.535358v1?rss=1
Authors: Laguillo-Gomez, A., Calvo, E., Martin-Cofreces, N., Lozano-Prieto, M., Sanchez-Madrid, F., Vazquez, J.
Abstract:
Open-search methods allow unbiased, high-throughput identification of post-translational modifications in proteins at an unprecedented scale. The performance of current open-search algorithms is diminished by experimental errors in the determination of the precursor peptide mass. In this work we propose a semi-supervised open search approach, called ReCom, that minimizes this effect by taking advantage of a priori known information from a reference database, such as Unimod or a database provided by the user. We present a proof-of-concept study using Comet-ReCom, an improved version of Comet-PTM. Comet-ReCom increased identification performance of Comet-PTM by 68%. This increased performance of Comet-ReCom to score the MS/MS spectrum comes in parallel with a significantly better assignation of the monoisotopic peak of the precursor peptide in the MS spectrum, even in cases of peptide coelution. Our data demonstrate that open searches using ultra-tolerant mass windows can benefit from using a semi-supervised approach that takes advantage from previous knowledge on the nature of protein modifications.
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