Building consensus spectral libraries for peptide identification in proteomics

Henry Lam, Eric W. Deutsch, James S. Eddes, Jimmy K. Eng, Stephen E. Stein, Ruedi Aebersold

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)873-875
Number of pages3
JournalNature Methods
Volume5
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Sept 2008
Externally publishedYes

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