DOI

  • Kira Vyatkina
  • Lennard J.M. Dekker
  • Si Wu
  • Martijn M. VanDuijn
  • Xiaowen Liu
  • Nikola Tolić
  • Theo M. Luider
  • Ljiljana Paša-Tolić

Despite high-resolution mass spectrometers are becoming accessible for more and more laboratories, tandem (MS/MS) mass spectra are still often collected at a low resolution. And even if acquired at a high resolution, software tools used for their processing do not tend to benefit from that in full, and an ability to specify a relative mass tolerance in this case often remains the only feature the respective algorithms take advantage of. We argue that a more efficient way to analyze high-resolution MS/MS spectra should be with methods more explicitly accounting for the precision level, and sustain this claim through demonstrating that a de novo sequencing framework originally developed for (high-resolution) top-down MS/MS data is perfectly suitable for processing high-resolution bottom-up datasets, even though a top-down like deconvolution performed as the first step will leave in many spectra at most a few peaks.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1600321
Number of pages9
JournalProteomics
Volume17
Issue number23-24
Early online date7 Nov 2017
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2017

    Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Biology
  • Biochemistry

    Research areas

  • bottom-up proteomics, de novo sequencing, high-resolution mass spectrometry, ALGORITHM, MS/MS, DATABASE SEARCH, PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION, SOFTWARE, ORBITRAP, DECONVOLUTION, SPECTROMETRY, TAGS, PROTEOMICS

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