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XLSearch, Version 1.0 Copyright of School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Contact: [email protected], [email protected] I. INTRODUCTION This software is intended to perform database sequence search for identifying chemically cross-linked peptide pairs from tandem mass spectra. Usage of this software is free of charge for academic purposes. II. PREREQUISITES i. Software packages This software can be run on Unix/Linux operating systems. 1. Python version 2.6 or higher is required. 2. To perform the in-sample training (i.e. 'training mode'), additional python modules (Numpy 1.6.1 or higher, Scipy 0.9 or higher, Scikit-learn 0.15 or higher) are required. ii. Data 1. mzXML files containing tandem mass spectra converted using msconvert (http://proteowizard.sourceforge.net/tools.shtml) from RAW files. NOTE: Currently only mzXML format is supported. 2. Fasta file containing the desired protein sequences to be searched against. III. USAGE XLSearch can be run in 'searching mode' and 'training mode'. Searching mode is intended to perform the database sequence search where the peptide spectrum matches (PSM) are assigned a score based on the computed features that describe the maching quality between spectrum and each individual peptide, as well as weights of pre-trained logisitic models. Training mode is intended to re-train the logistic models using authentic cross-link PSMs obtained from the new data. i. Searching mode Input: 1) PARAM.txt Contains parameters for performing the database searching. 2) database.fasta Fasta format text file containing amino acid sequences in fasta format. Specified in 'PARAM.txt'. Steps: 1. Preparation: a. Unzip the .zip file to a directory (i.e. '/xlsearch_install_dir/'). It should contain the python modules in '/xlsearch_install_dir/lib/', as well as the pipline script for searching and training model ('xlsearch_search.py' and 'xlsearch_train.py'). b. Create directory where search is to be performed (i.e. '/xlsearch_search_dir/'). c. Copy the file 'xlsearch_search.py' and 'PARAM.txt' to this directory. d. Copy the fasta sequence file (i.e. 'database.fasta') to this directory. e. Create directory where the mzXML files are located (i.e. '/xlsearch_search_dir/mzxml/'). f. Edit the parameter file 'PARAM.txt' as needed. 2. Perform datbase search Under directory '/xlearch_search_dir/' $ python xlsearch_search.py -l /xlsearch_install_dir/ -p PARAM.txt -o output.txt where '-l', '-p' and '-o' indicates the path to the library, parameter file and the output file name. All three arguments are required. 3. Output file A tab-delimited text file contains top-scoring PSM for each query spectrum. Sorted by the joint probability score assigned to each PSM. The first line contains the headers of the columns: a. Rank of PSM b. Sequence of alpha peptide c. Sequence of beta peptide d. Index of cross-linking site on alpha e. Index of cross-linking site on beta f. Protein header of alpha peptide g. Protein header of beta peptide h. Charge state i. Joint probability score P(alpha = T, beta = T) j. Margianl probability P(alpha = T) k. Marginal probability P(beta = T) l. The title of the query spectrum 4. Evalutating identified PSMs The output file contains the top-scoring PSMs for each query spectrum sorted in descending order of the joint probability score. The percentage of false positive identification at a given score cutoff $S$ is estimated by counting the numbers of true-true, true-false, and false-false PSMs whose scores are greater than $S$. Specifically, FDR = (#(TF) - #(FF)) / #(TT) To filter the output PSMs at a given score cutoff, provide the value of 'cutoff' and 'is_unique' in the parameter file, where 'cutoff' indicates the desired fdr cutoff, and 'is_unique' ('True' or 'False') indicates whether the unique cross-linked peptides (i.e. the combination of cross-linked peptides and charge) or the redundant PSMs are counted in the FDR calculation. For example, to filter for the results at 1% FDR cutoff where the redundant PSMs are counted, set 'cutoff' to 0.01 and 'is_unique' to False. The filtered result will be written to file 'intra0.01.txt' and 'inter0.01txt' for intra-protein and inter-protein cross-links. ii. Training mode Input: 1) PARAM.txt Contains parameters for performing the database searching. 2) target_database.fasta Contains only the TARGET sequences from which true-true PSMs can be identified. 3) uniprot_database.fasta Contains the pool of protein sequences from which the true-false and false-false PSMs can be generated based on the true-true PSMs. 4) true_true.psm (Optional) Contains the authentic true-true PSMs from which the true-false and false-false PSMs can be genearted. Check the sample file for format. Steps: 1. Preparation: a. Same as in searching mode. b. Create directory where training is to be performed (i.e. '/xlsearch_train_dir/') c. Copy 'xlsearch_train.py' to the current directory d. Copy the fasta sequence file ('target_database.fasta', 'uniprot_database.fasta') to the current directory e. Create directory where the mzXML files are located (i.e. '/xlsearch_search_dir/mzxml/'). f. Edit the parameter file 'PARAM.txt' as needed. 2. Perform training Under directory '/xlearch_train_dir/' $ python xlsearch_search.py -l /xlsearch_install_dir/ -p PARAM.txt -o output.txt where '-l', '-p' indicates the path to the library, parameter file, and the output file name. All three arguments are required. 3. Output file The output will be in the following format: CI00 ... weight 0 of classifier I ... CI15 ... weight 15 of classifier I CII00 ... weight 0 of classifier II ... CII15 ... weight 15 of classifier II nTT ... number of true-true PSMs nTF ... number of true-false PSMs nFF ... number of false-false PSMs These lines correspond to the logistic regression parameters for classfier I and II ('CI' and 'CII'), and the numbers of true-true, true-false and false-false PSMs used to train them ('nTT', 'nTF', 'nFF'). The parameters in the 'PARAM.txt' can be overwritten by these lines to use the updated model.
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