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NITPICK: peak identification for mass spectrometry data

Bernhard Y Renard1,2, Marc Kirchner1,2, Hanno Steen 3, Judith AJ Steen4 and Fred A Hamprecht 1,2*

Author Affiliations

1 Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

2 Department of Pathology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA

3 Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA

4 Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:355 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-355

Published: 28 August 2008

Additional files

Additional file 1:

A zip folder containing all simulation files (R data files).

Format: ZIP Size: 11.8MB Download file

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Additional file 2:

The zipped original LC/MS .wiff-file on which MarkerView was run (as acquired by the AB/Sciex QStar instrument)

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Additional file 3:

The original spectrum of BSA-sample.wiff integrated over retention time (23.817-29.278 minutes) on which NITPICK was run.

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Additional file 4:

A zip-folder containing all pepex results on the simulated data.

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Additional file 5:

A zip-folder containing all NITPICK results on the simulated data sets and for each SNR (SNR in 5, 10, 25, 50, 100) a R data file called

• resultList_0_’SNR’_0.1.RDA gives the peaks found by NITPICK for all spectra of a certain SNR

• lengthResultList_0_’SNR’_0.1.RDA gives the number of peaks found by NITPICK for each spectrum

• correct_0_’SNR’_0.1.RDA gives the number of correctly identified peaks found by NITPICK for each spectrum

• tooMany_0_’SNR’_0.1.RDA gives the number of incorrectly identified peaks found by NITPICK for each spectrum

• pp_resultList_0_3_0_’SNR’_0.1.RDA gives the peaks found by NITPICK for all spectra of a certain SNR after postprocessing with g=3

• lengthResultList_0_3_0_’SNR’_0.1.RDA gives the number of peaks found by NITPICK for each spectrum after postprocessing with g=3

• correct_0_3_0_’SNR’_0.1.RDA gives the number of correctly identified peaks found by NITPICK for each spectrum after postprocessing with g=3

• tooMany_0 3_0_’SNR’_0.1.RDA gives the number of incorrectly identified peaks found by NITPICK for each spectrum after postprocessing with g=3

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Additional file 6:

Excel sheet containing the peaks detected by NITPICK (mz-position, charge, intensity) as well as their manual validation.

Format: XLS Size: 50KB Download file

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Additional file 7:

Excel sheet containing the peaks detected by MarkerView (mz-position, charge, if available) as well as their manual validation.

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