correct_peak_selection: Corrects wrong selection of monoisotopic peak

In MSnID: Utilities for Exploration and Assessment of Confidence of LC-MSn Proteomics Identifications

Description

In a typical setting instruments select ions for fragmentation primarily based on ion intensity. For low molecular weight peptides the most intense peak usually corresponds to monoisotopic peak (that is only C12 carbon isotopes). With increase of molecular weight, instensity of monoisotopic peak becomes smaller relatively to heavier peptide isotopes (that is containing one or a few C13 isotopes).

The function subtracts or adds the mass difference between C13 and C12 isotopes (1.0033548378 Da) if that reduces the mass error. Such a mass error arises from the fact that instrument may peak non-monoisotopic peak for fragmentation and thus report the mass that is different by ~ 1 Da.

Usage

    correct_peak_selection(object)

Arguments

object

An instance of class "MSnID".

Value

Returns an instance of "MSnID" class with updated experimentalMassToCharge value.

Author(s)

Vladislav A Petyuk [e-mail]

See Also

MSnID recalibrate mass_measurement_error

Examples

data(c_elegans)
# plot original mass error
massErr <- (msnidObj$experimentalMassToCharge - 
            msnidObj$calculatedMassToCharge) * 
            msnidObj$chargeState
hist(massErr,xlim=c(-1,+1), breaks=seq(-1.5,+1.5,0.01))
# fixing the problem of picking wrong monoisotopic peak
msnidObj <- correct_peak_selection(msnidObj)
# plot fixed mass error
massErr <- (msnidObj$experimentalMassToCharge - 
            msnidObj$calculatedMassToCharge) * 
            msnidObj$chargeState
hist(massErr,xlim=c(-1,+1), breaks=seq(-1.5,+1.5,0.01))

MSnID documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 8:03 p.m.