Agent skill
bio-proteomics-protein-inference
Protein grouping and inference from peptide identifications. Use when resolving protein ambiguity from shared peptides. Handles protein groups and protein-level FDR control using parsimony and probabilistic approaches.
Install this agent skill to your Project
npx add-skill https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills/tree/main/skills/bio-proteomics-protein-inference
SKILL.md
Version Compatibility
Reference examples tested with: pyOpenMS 3.1+
Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match. If versions differ:
- Python:
pip show <package>thenhelp(module.function)to check signatures - R:
packageVersion("<pkg>")then?function_nameto verify parameters
If code throws ImportError, AttributeError, or TypeError, introspect the installed package and adapt the example to match the actual API rather than retrying.
Protein Inference
"Resolve protein groups from my peptide identifications" → Group peptide-spectrum matches into protein groups, resolving shared-peptide ambiguity using parsimony or probabilistic methods, then apply protein-level FDR.
- Python:
pyopenms.ProteinInference()for parsimony-based grouping - R: Bioconductor protein inference workflows
The Protein Inference Problem
Peptides can map to multiple proteins (shared peptides), making protein identification ambiguous.
# Example: Peptide mapping
peptide_to_proteins = {
'PEPTIDEK': ['P12345', 'P67890'], # Shared between paralogs
'UNIQUER': ['P12345'], # Unique to P12345
'ANOTHERONE': ['P12345'], # Unique to P12345
'SHAREDK': ['P67890', 'P11111'], # Shared
}
# P12345 has 2 unique peptides -> confident identification
# P67890 has 0 unique peptides -> subset, may be grouped with P12345
Parsimony Principle
Goal: Resolve protein identification ambiguity from shared peptides by finding the minimal protein set explaining all observed peptides.
Approach: Build a peptide-to-protein mapping, then greedily select proteins that cover the most unassigned peptides until all peptides are accounted for, producing a minimal explanatory protein list.
def apply_parsimony(peptide_protein_map):
'''Find minimal set of proteins explaining all peptides'''
proteins = set()
for prots in peptide_protein_map.values():
proteins.update(prots)
protein_peptides = {p: set() for p in proteins}
for pep, prots in peptide_protein_map.items():
for p in prots:
protein_peptides[p].add(pep)
covered_peptides = set()
selected_proteins = []
# Greedy: select protein covering most uncovered peptides
while covered_peptides != set(peptide_protein_map.keys()):
best_protein = max(protein_peptides.keys(),
key=lambda p: len(protein_peptides[p] - covered_peptides))
new_coverage = protein_peptides[best_protein] - covered_peptides
if not new_coverage:
break
selected_proteins.append(best_protein)
covered_peptides.update(new_coverage)
return selected_proteins
Protein Groups
def create_protein_groups(peptide_protein_map):
'''Group proteins with identical peptide evidence'''
protein_peptides = {}
for pep, prots in peptide_protein_map.items():
for p in prots:
protein_peptides.setdefault(p, set()).add(pep)
# Group by peptide set
peptide_set_to_proteins = {}
for protein, peptides in protein_peptides.items():
key = frozenset(peptides)
peptide_set_to_proteins.setdefault(key, []).append(protein)
groups = []
for peptides, proteins in peptide_set_to_proteins.items():
groups.append({
'proteins': proteins,
'peptides': list(peptides),
'n_peptides': len(peptides),
'is_group': len(proteins) > 1
})
return groups
pyOpenMS Protein Inference
from pyopenms import ProteinIdentification, PeptideIdentification
from pyopenms import BasicProteinInferenceAlgorithm
# Load identifications
protein_ids = []
peptide_ids = []
IdXMLFile().load('search_results.idXML', protein_ids, peptide_ids)
# Run inference
inference = BasicProteinInferenceAlgorithm()
inference.run(peptide_ids, protein_ids)
# Results include protein groups and scores
for protein_id in protein_ids:
for hit in protein_id.getHits():
accession = hit.getAccession()
score = hit.getScore()
R: Protein Inference with ProteinInference
library(ProteinInference)
# From peptide-protein mapping
protein_groups <- infer_proteins(
peptides = psm_data$peptide,
proteins = psm_data$protein,
method = 'parsimony'
)
# Count unique peptides per group
protein_groups$n_unique <- sapply(protein_groups$peptides, function(p) {
sum(sapply(p, function(pep) length(peptide_to_protein[[pep]]) == 1))
})
Protein-Level FDR
def protein_fdr(protein_groups, target_fdr=0.01):
'''Calculate protein-level FDR from group scores'''
sorted_groups = sorted(protein_groups, key=lambda x: x['score'], reverse=True)
target_count = 0
decoy_count = 0
for group in sorted_groups:
if group['is_decoy']:
decoy_count += 1
else:
target_count += 1
group['fdr'] = decoy_count / target_count if target_count > 0 else 1.0
# Q-value
min_fdr = 1.0
for group in reversed(sorted_groups):
min_fdr = min(min_fdr, group['fdr'])
group['qvalue'] = min_fdr
return [g for g in sorted_groups if g['qvalue'] <= target_fdr and not g['is_decoy']]
Related Skills
- peptide-identification - Input for protein inference
- quantification - Quantify inferred proteins
- database-access/uniprot-access - Protein annotations
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