Peak picking multidimensional NMR spectra with the contour geometry based algorithm CYPICK

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• 作者：Julia M. Würz ; Peter Güntert
• 关键词：Peak picking ; Peak list ; Contour lines ; Automated assignment ; Structure calculation ; CYANA
• 刊名：Journal of Biomolecular NMR
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：67
• 期：1
• 页码：63-76
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics; Biochemistry, general; Spectroscopy/Spectrometry;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-5001
• 卷排序：67

文摘

The automated identification of signals in multidimensional NMR spectra is a challenging task, complicated by signal overlap, noise, and spectral artifacts, for which no universally accepted method is available. Here, we present a new peak picking algorithm, CYPICK, that follows, as far as possible, the manual approach taken by a spectroscopist who analyzes peak patterns in contour plots of the spectrum, but is fully automated. Human visual inspection is replaced by the evaluation of geometric criteria applied to contour lines, such as local extremality, approximate circularity (after appropriate scaling of the spectrum axes), and convexity. The performance of CYPICK was evaluated for a variety of spectra from different proteins by systematic comparison with peak lists obtained by other, manual or automated, peak picking methods, as well as by analyzing the results of automated chemical shift assignment and structure calculation based on input peak lists from CYPICK. The results show that CYPICK yielded peak lists that compare in most cases favorably to those obtained by other automated peak pickers with respect to the criteria of finding a maximal number of real signals, a minimal number of artifact peaks, and maximal correctness of the chemical shift assignments and the three-dimensional structure obtained by fully automated assignment and structure calculation.