Recipe 4.1 - Annotating a PeakList

Problem

You want to add annotations to PeakList

Solution

FragmentAnnotator is a facade that highly simplifies and hides the complexity of annotating a PeakList given a peptide. Annotating a peak list requires a theoretical spectra to be generated, the peaks of the theoretical and query spectra to be aligned and reporting annotations back to the PeakList. Here is a java snippet to annotate a PeakList from a Peptide:


// the fragmenter is responsible for generating a theoretical spectrum from the peptide
PeptideFragmenter fragmenter =
        new PeptideFragmenter(EnumSet.of(IonType.b, IonType.y), PeakList.Precision.DOUBLE);

// the annotator needs to delegate to the fragmenter the fragmentation process and to
// the internal aligner the tolerance for aligning peaks
PeptideFragmentAnnotator annotator = new PeptideFragmentAnnotator(fragmenter, new AbsoluteTolerance(0.1));

// the spectrum to annotate
PeakList<PepFragAnnotation> spectrum = new DoubleConstantPeakList<>(1);

double[] mzs = new double[] {234.1454, 321.1773, 322.1428, 330.1658, 353.1497, 359.1742, 365.1893, 365.219, 378.5135,
        402.6949, 402.718, 434.2426, 434.27, 434.2711, 439.2058, 456.2456, 471.2636, 491.2805, 508.2191, 553.2644,
        559.2601, 559.2625, 560.2307, 560.2513, 560.2559, 567.301, 575.7813, 576.2722, 576.3156, 592.3148, 592.3464,
        643.2743, 661.292, 674.309, 689.3341, 690.3297, 700.2772, 700.3068, 700.3408, 707.3326, 707.3625, 717.3297,
        718.2906, 718.3193, 735.3185, 735.3597, 780.1489, 786.3971, 804.3954, 804.4386};

for (double mz : mzs) {

    spectrum.add(mz, 1);
}

// the peptide as a source for theoretical fragments with annotations
Peptide peptide = Peptide.parse("QVHPDTGISSK");

// start process: fragmenting peptide, aligning to the spectrum and reporting matched ions back to the spectrum
annotator.annotate(spectrum, peptide, 3);

Recipe 4.1 - Annotating a PeakList

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