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Peptidic Natural Products (PNPs) are highly sought after bioactive compounds that include many antibiotic, antiviral and antitumor agents, immunosuppressors and toxins. Even though recent advancements in mass-spectrometry have led to the development of accurate sequencing methods for nonlinear (cyclic and branch-cyclic) peptides, requiring only picograms of input material, the identification of PNPs via a database search of mass spectra remains problematic. This holds particularly true when trying to evaluate the statistical significance of Peptide Spectrum Matches (PSM) especially when working with non-linear peptides that often contain non-standard amino acids, modifications and have an overall complex structure. In this paper we describe a new way of estimating the statistical significance of a PSM, defined by any peptide (including linear and non-linear), by using state-of-the-art Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. In addition to the estimate itself our method also provides an uncertainty estimate in the form of confidence bounds, as well as an automatic simulation stopping rule that ensures that the sample size is sufficient to achieve the desired level of result accuracy.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 17th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2017 |
Publisher | Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing |
Volume | 88 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783959770507 |
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State | Published - 1 Aug 2017 |
Event | International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics - Boston, United States Duration: 21 Aug 2017 → 23 Aug 2017 Conference number: 17 http://acm-bcb.org/WABI/2017/ |
Name | Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs |
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Publisher | Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing |
Volume | 88 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1868-8969 |
Conference | International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics |
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Abbreviated title | WABI 2017 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Boston |
Period | 21/08/17 → 23/08/17 |
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