peaksWithCentWave {xcms} | R Documentation

## Identify peaks in chromatographic data using centWave

### Description

`peaksWithCentWave` identifies (chromatographic) peaks in purely chromatographic data, i.e. based on intensity and retention time values without m/z values.

### Usage

    peaksWithCentWave(
      int,
      rt,
      peakwidth = c(20, 50),
      snthresh = 10,
      prefilter = c(3, 100),
      integrate = 1,
      fitgauss = FALSE,
      noise = 0,
      verboseColumns = FALSE,
      firstBaselineCheck = TRUE,
      extendLengthMSW = FALSE,
      ...
    )

### Arguments

`int` | `numeric` with intensity values.
`rt` | `numeric` with the retention time for the intensities. Length has to be equal to `length(int)`.
`peakwidth` | `numeric(2)` with the lower and upper bound of the expected peak width.
`snthresh` | `numeric(1)` defining the signal to noise ratio cutoff. Peaks with a signal to noise ratio < `snthresh` are omitted.
`prefilter` | `numeric(2)` (`c(k, I)`): only regions of interest with at least `k` centroids with signal `>= I` are returned in the first step.
`integrate` | `numeric(1)`, integration method. For `integrate = 1` peak limits are found through descending on the mexican hat filtered data, for `integrate = 2` the descend is done on the real data. The latter method is more accurate but prone to noise, while the former is more robust, but less exact.
`fitgauss` | `logical(1)` whether or not a Gaussian should be fitted to each peak.
`noise` | `numeric(1)` defining the minimum required intensity for centroids to be considered in the first analysis step (definition of the regions of interest).
`verboseColumns` | `logical(1)`: whether additional peak meta data columns should be returned.
`firstBaselineCheck` | `logical(1)`. If `TRUE` continuous data within regions of interest is checked to be above the first baseline.
`extendLengthMSW` | `logical(1)`. If `TRUE` the "open" method of EIC extension is used, rather than the default "reflect" method.
`...` | currently ignored.

### Details

The method uses the same algorithm for the peak detection than centWave, employs however a different approach to identify the initial regions in which the peak detection is performed (i.e. the regions of interest ROI). The method first identifies all local maxima in the chromatographic data and defines the corresponding positions +/- `peakwidth[2]` as the ROIs. Noise estimation bases also on these ROIs and can thus be different from centWave resulting in different signal to noise ratios.

### Value

A matrix, each row representing an identified chromatographic peak, with columns:

- `"rt"`: retention time of the peak's midpoint (time of the maximum signal).

- `"rtmin"`: minimum retention time of the peak.

- `"rtmax"`: maximum retention time of the peak.

- `"into"`: integrated (original) intensity of the peak.

- `"intb"`: per-peak baseline corrected integrated peak intensity.

- `"maxo"`: maximum (original) intensity of the peak.

- `"sn"`: signal to noise ratio of the peak defined as `(maxo - baseline)/sd` with `sd` being the standard deviation of the local chromatographic noise.

Additional columns for `verboseColumns = TRUE`:

- `"mu"`: gaussian parameter mu.

- `"sigma"`: gaussian parameter sigma.

- `"h"`: gaussian parameter h.

- `"f"`: region number of the m/z ROI where the peak was localized.

- `"dppm"`: m/z deviation of mass trace across scans in ppm (always `NA`).

- `"scale"`: scale on which the peak was localized.

- `"scpos"`: peak position found by wavelet analysis (index in `int`).

- `"scmin"`: left peak limit found by wavelet analysis (index in `int`).

- `"scmax"`: right peak limit found by wavelet analysis (index in `int`).

### Author(s)

Johannes Rainer

### See Also

centWave for a detailed description of the peak detection method.

Other peak detection functions for chromatographic data: `peaksWithMatchedFilter()`

### Examples

    ## Reading a file
    library(xcms)
    od <- readMSData(system.file("cdf/KO/ko15.CDF", package = "faahKO"),
        mode = "onDisk")

    ## Extract chromatographic data for a small m/z range
    mzr <- c(272.1, 272.2)
    chr <- chromatogram(od, mz = mzr)[1, 1]

    int <- intensity(chr)
    rt <- rtime(chr)

    ## Plot the region
    plot(chr, type = "h")

    ## Identify peaks in the chromatographic data
    pks <- peaksWithCentWave(intensity(chr), rtime(chr))
    pks

    ## Highlight the peaks
    rect(xleft = pks[, "rtmin"], xright = pks[, "rtmax"],
        ybottom = rep(0, nrow(pks)), ytop = pks[, "maxo"], col = "#ff000040",
        border = "#00000040")

[Package xcms version 3.10.2 Index]