DATA  MINING  ALGORITHM  FOR  MASS  SPECTRA
OF  PROTEOMIC  EXPERIMENT

V. V. Makarov, S. K. Saveliev*, Ya. I. Lutvinsky,
A. N. Verenchikov, N. V. Krasnov

Institute for Analytical Instrumentation RAS, Saint-Petersburg
*Baltic State Technical University, Saint-Petersburg

   A data mining algorithm is described for extracting analytically significant information from mass spectra of complex peptide mixtures. The algorithm operates with mass-to-charge and intensity values of mass spectral peaks, and can correctly process overlapped isotope clusters. The algorithm is shown to be much faster than commercial ones, while the quality of processing is shown to be the same.