TitleFaster Mass Spectrometry-based Protein Inference: Junction Trees are More Efficient than Sampling and Marginalization by Enumeration.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsSerang O, Noble W S
JournalIEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics / IEEE, ACM
Date or Month Published2012 Jan 30
ISSN1557-9964
AbstractThe problem of identifying the proteins in a complex mixture using tandem mass spectrometry can be framed as an inference problem on a graph that connects peptides to proteins. Several existing protein identification methods make use of statistical inference methods for graphical models, including expectation maximization, Markov chain Monte Carlo, and full marginalization coupled with approximation heuristics. We show that, for this problem, the majority of the cost of inference usually comes from a few highly connected subgraphs. Furthermore, we evaluate three different statistical inference methods using a common graphical model, and we demonstrate that junction tree inference substantially improves rates of convergence compared to existing methods. The python code used for this paper is available at http://noble.gs.washington.edu/proj/fido.
DOI10.1109/TCBB.2012.26
Downloadshttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22331862?dopt=Abstract
Citation Key7852
PubMed ID22331862