Building consensus spectral libraries for peptide identification in proteomics
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Selected Reaction Monitoring Mass Spectrometry for Absolute Protein Quantification
Published on: August 17, 2015
Henry Lam1, Eric W Deutsch, James S Eddes
1Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington 98103, USA. kehlam@ust.hk
Abstract:
Spectral searching has drawn increasing interest as an alternative to sequence-database searching in proteomics. We developed and validated an open-source software toolkit, SpectraST, to enable proteomics researchers to build spectral libraries and to integrate this promising approach in their data-analysis pipeline. It allows individual researchers to condense raw data into spectral libraries, summarizing information about observed proteomes into a concise and retrievable format for future data analyses.
