Title
Statistical quality assessment and outlier detection for liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry experiments.
Abstract
Quality assessment methods, that are common place in engineering and industrial production, are not widely spread in large-scale proteomics experiments. But modern technologies such as Multi-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography coupled to Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) produce large quantities of proteomic data. These data are prone to measurement errors and reproducibility problems such that an automatic quality assessment and control become increasingly important.We propose a methodology to assess the quality and reproducibility of data generated in quantitative LC-MS experiments. We introduce quality descriptors that capture different aspects of the quality and reproducibility of LC-MS data sets. Our method is based on the Mahalanobis distance and a robust Principal Component Analysis.We evaluate our approach on several data sets of different complexities and show that we are able to precisely detect LC-MS runs of poor signal quality in large-scale studies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1186/1756-0381-2-4
BioData mining
Keywords
Field
DocType
measurement error,algorithms,bioinformatics,applied statistics,liquid chromatography mass spectrometry,liquid chromatography,industrial production,mass spectrometry,outlier detection,mahalanobis distance,principal component analysis
Data mining,Anomaly detection,Proteomics,Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry,Computer science,Mass spectrometry,Bioinformatics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
1
1756-0381
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.47
9
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ole B Schulz-Trieglaff126323.38
Egidijus Machtejevas250.47
Knut Reinert31020105.87
Hartmut Schlüter451.15
Joachim Thiemann560.82
Klaus Unger650.47