Libraries and targeted analysis

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Libraries and targeted analysis Babak  2021-01-19 11:11
 

Hi Skyline Team,

I would like to ask you to answer my questions please.

  1. In the Proteome Discoverer, I uploaded raw data from MS, divided into three types and from these three types I created three libraries – each type had its own library. Is there any difference to upload all three libraries into Skyline, in which I evaluate the data of PRM analysis, or to upload them as one common library?
  2. We did targeted analysis on MS and the samples were measured in triplicates. Is it better, during the process of evaluation in Skyline, to do the average (total ratio) of all three replicates or just to select the most suitable replicate?

Thank you

 
 
Nick Shulman responded:  2021-01-19 12:36
1. If the set of peptides in your libraries overlap with each other, and you are using these libraries to help Skyline decide which transitions to use, then it would be best to combine all of the libraries into one .blib file.

When Skyline is trying to decide which transitions to automatically give you, Skyline looks through your libraries and uses the first library which has a spectrum for that peptide. If all of your libraries have spectra for that peptide, Skyline will not necessarily be choosing the best spectrum.

When you combine your libraries into one .blib file, the BlibFilter algorithm looks through all of the available spectra for each peptide and chooses the most representative one.

2. If you want to compare results between groups of replicates, you should take a look at the Group Comparison tutorial:
https://skyline.ms/wiki/home/software/Skyline/page.view?name=tutorial_grouped
If you have multiple samples in each cohort, and each of those samples has multiple technical replicates, Skyline does end up averaging the numbers for the technical replicates, and the fold change is calculated by doing a T-test on those average values.