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Bruker MALDI-TOF bacteria species identification scoring algorithm

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For identification scoring, the software correlates signalintensities of matched signals of mass spectra. The three scoresobtained from such a procedure are multiplied and normalized to avalue of 1,000 and its common logarithm. Log scores over 2 areconsidered as reliable identification of a bacterial species (Table4), whereas log scores over 1.7 generally indicate reliableidentification of bacterial genera. Log scores of 3 are obtained whenspectra are matched with themselves.

Sauer, S., Freiwald, A., Maier, T., Kube, M., Reinhardt, R., Kostrzewa, M., & Geider, K. (2008). Classification and identification of bacteria by mass spectrometry andcomputational analysis. PloS one, 3(7), e2843.

Going further, from a random thread on ResearchGate:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_anyone_know_how_is_the_p-value_calculated_by_Bruker_Biotyper_during_MALDI-MS_fingerprinting_of_bacteria

Number of peaks matched in your unknown sample divided by the numberof peaks in the unknown sample, this is given a score (out of 10)

Number of peaks matched in your unknown sample divided by the numberof peaks in the reference sample, this is given a score (out of 10)

Score of relative intensities of matching peaks (out of 10)

Total score out of 1000

Log10 score out of 3

There is no relationship of the score with a p-value nor you cancalculate the statistics because the bruker database is not open andyou can not know the values for what the score was calculated to dothe statistical analysis

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