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Elsevier, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 5(7), p. 962-970, 2008

DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m700293-mcp200

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Comparison of Mascot and X!Tandem Performance for Low and High Accuracy Mass Spectrometry and the Development of an Adjusted Mascot Threshold*†

Journal article published in 2008 by Markus Brosch, Sajani Swamy, Tim Hubbard, Jyoti Choudhary ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

It is a major challenge to develop effective sequence database search algorithms to translate molecular weight and fragment mass information obtained from tandem mass spectrometry into high quality peptide and protein assignments. We investigated the peptide identification performance of Mascot and X!Tandem for mass tolerance settings common for low and high accuracy mass spectrometry. We demonstrated that sensitivity and specificity of peptide identification can vary substantially for different mass tolerance settings, but this effect was more significant for Mascot. We present an adjusted Mascot threshold, which allows the user to freely select the best trade-off between sensitivity and specificity. The adjusted Mascot threshold was compared with the default Mascot and X!Tandem scoring thresholds and shown to be more sensitive at the same false discovery rates for both low and high accuracy mass spectrometry data.