{"paper":{"title":"A theoretical foundation of the target-decoy search strategy for false discovery rate control in proteomics","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math.ST","stat.TH"],"primary_cat":"stat.AP","authors_text":"Chao Liu, Hao Chi, Kun He, Lai-Yun Qing, Lan Luo, Rui-Xiang Sun, Si-Min He, Wen-Feng Zeng, Yan Fu","submitted_at":"2015-01-03T07:20:05Z","abstract_excerpt":"Motivation: Target-decoy search (TDS) is currently the most popular strategy for estimating and controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) of peptide identifications in mass spectrometry-based shotgun proteomics. While this strategy is very useful in practice and has been intensively studied empirically, its theoretical foundation has not yet been well established. Result: In this work, we systematically analyze the TDS strategy in a rigorous statistical sense. We prove that the commonly used concatenated TDS provides a conservative estimate of the FDR for any given score threshold, but it can"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1501.00537","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}