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MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 198-208Publisher
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DOI: 10.1074/mcp.TIR119.001752
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Algorithms; Caenorhabditis elegans; data evaluation; de novo sequencing; mass spectrometry; peptides*; protein identification; quality control and metrics; sequencing ms; tandem mass spectrometry; metaproteomics
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- [P41 GM103533]
- [R01 GM121696]
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The success of a sample preparation method can be difficult to evaluate for unusual or unfamiliar samples. Further, it can be hard to discern the suitability of a chosen database for a search of such data. Automated de novo sequencing can provide metrics for both problems. The analysis of samples from unsequenced and/or understudied species as well as samples where the proteome is derived from multiple organisms poses two key questions. The first is whether the proteomic data obtained from an unusual sample type even contains peptide tandem mass spectra. The second question is whether an appropriate protein sequence database is available for proteomic searches. We describe the use of automated de novo sequencing for evaluating both the quality of a collection of tandem mass spectra and the suitability of a given protein sequence database for searching that data. Applications of this method include the proteome analysis of closely related species, metaproteomics, and proteomics of extinct organisms.
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