MSnbase extracting individual spectrum based on precursor ion m/z
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garfield320 ▴ 30
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Hi,

I'm having trouble with extracting individual MS spectrum from my metadata based on precursor ion m/z.

rawdata <- readMSData("file.mzXML", msLevel = 2,  mode = "onDisk")

I'm aware that I can assess individual MS spectrum objects by using index, like rawdata[[1]] . But I was trying to get the index I want based on retention time or m/z of precursor ion. For example, my rawdata[[1]] looks like this:

> rawdata[[1]]
Object of class "Spectrum2"
Precursor: 808.5253 
Retention time: 0:8 
Charge: 2 
MSn level: 2 
Peaks count: 462 
Total ion count: 1423873

For retention time, this worked:

head(rtime(rawdata))   #got exact retention time
> which(rtime(rawdata)==7.81947)
F1.S00029 
     1

But when I do the same for precursor ion m/z, I don't get an index as an answer.

> which(precursorMz(rawdata)==808.5253)
named integer(0)

Why doesn't this work for precursor ion m/z? Is there any way to extract the index (and eventually the corresponding MS spectrum) based on precursor ion m/z?

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@laurent-gatto-5645
Last seen 6 weeks ago
Belgium

This is most likely due to the fact that the precursor M/Z isn't exactly 808.5253. 808.5253 is probably a rounded up value that is shown as part of showing the spectrum object, and == returns TRUE when the two values are exactly identical. You would need to check the exact value of the M/Z value - for example, the following should return what you are looking for

mz1 <- precursorMz(rawdata)[1]
which(precursorMz(rawdata) == mz1)

Alternatively, you could also use all.equal rather than ==:

> all.equal(808.5253, 808.52532355)
[1] "Mean relative difference: 2.91271e-08"
> all.equal(808.5253, 808.52532355, tolerance = 0.0001)
[1] TRUE

or round the M/Z value before doing the comparisons:

> all.equal(808.5253, round(808.52532355, 4))
[1] TRUE
> 808.5253 == round(808.52532355, 4)
[1] TRUE
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Yes that was the problem, which(round(precursorMz(rawdata),4)==808.5253) gave me the index I wanted, thanks!

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Yes that was the problem, which(round(precursorMz(rawdata),4)==808.5253) gave me the index I wanted, thanks!

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