PARPs database: a LIMS systems for protein-protein interaction data mining or laboratory information management system
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Mapping Dysfunctional Protein-Protein Interactions in Disease
Published on: October 24, 2025
Arnaud Droit1, Joanna M Hunter, Michèle Rouleau
1Health and Environment Unit, Laval University Medical research Center, CHUQ, Québec, Canada. arnaud.droit@gmail.com
Background:
In the "post-genome" era, mass spectrometry (MS) has become an important method for the analysis of proteins and the rapid advancement of this technique, in combination with other proteomics methods, results in an increasing amount of proteome data. This data must be archived and analysed using specialized bioinformatics tools.
Description:
We herein describe "PARPs database," a data analysis and management pipeline for liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) proteomics. PARPs database is a web-based tool whose features include experiment annotation, protein database searching, protein sequence management, as well as data-mining of the peptides and proteins identified.
Conclusion:
Using this pipeline, we have successfully identified several interactions of biological significance between PARP-1 and other proteins, namely RFC-1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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