Q5
:: DESCRIPTION
Q5 is a closed-form, exact solution to the problem of classification of complete mass spectra of a complex protein mixture. Q5 employs a probabilistic classification algorithm built upon a dimension-reduced linear discriminant analysis. Our solution is computationally efficient; it is non-iterative and computes the optimal linear discriminant using closed-form equations. The optimal discriminant is computed and verified for datasets of complete, complex SELDI spectra of human blood serum. Replicate experiments of different training/testing splits of each dataset are employed to verify robustness of the algorithm. The probabilistic classification method achieves excellent performance. We achieve sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive values above 97% on three ovarian cancer datasets and one prostate cancer dataset. The Q5 method outperforms previous full-spectrum complex sample spectral classification techniques, and can provide clues as to the molecular identities of differentially-expressed proteins and peptides.
::DEVELOPER
Donald Lab at Duke University
:: SCREENSHOTS
N/A
:: REQUIREMENTS
- Windows / Linux / MacOSX
- Matlab
:: DOWNLOAD
:: MORE INFORMATION
Citation
Probabilistic Disease Classification of Expression-Dependent Proteomic Data from Mass Spectrometry of Human Serum
Ryan H. Lilien, Hany Farid and Bruce R. Donald
Journal of Computational Biology, 2003; 10(6): 925-946.