Sequence tag

5 methods · 1994–2008

Sequence tag: Short, high-confidence stretches of sequence read straight off the spectrum and used as a filter or a query rather than as the final answer. A tag plus its flanking masses can identify a peptide on its own.

Short, high-confidence stretches of sequence read straight off the spectrum and used as a filter or a query rather than as the final answer. A tag plus its flanking masses can identify a peptide on its own.

The earliest of its 5 methods is Peptide sequence tags (1994); 4 more have followed.

Methods 5
Papers describing them 5
Authors 22
Active 1994-12-15 to 2008-09-05
Kinds adjacent (5)
Acquisition DDA (5)

Methods (5)

Oldest first, by the paper that describes each one.

  • Peptide sequence tags (1994): Error-tolerant peptide identification using short de novo sequence tags and flanking masses.
  • MultiTag (2003): Searches several error-tolerant peptide sequence tags at once, so a protein can be identified across species by sequence similarity even when no tag is individually correct. Tolerating errors in the tags is what lets de novo output drive a homology search.
  • GutenTag (2003): High-throughput sequence tagging using an empirically derived fragmentation model.
  • InsPecT (2005): Uses peptide sequence tags derived from the spectrum as a database filter, discarding the vast majority of candidate peptides before scoring, which makes blind searches for post-translational modifications tractable.
  • DirecTag (2008): Open-source statistical scoring algorithm for accurate sequence tags from peptide MS/MS spectra.

Papers describing them (5)

Authors (22)

Adam J. Liska, Alexander Golod, Amy-Joan L. Ham, Andrej Shevchenko, Anita Saraf, Anna Shevchenko, Ari Frank, Daniel B. Martin, David L. Tabb, Ebrahim Zandi, Hongjun Shu, John R. Yates, Ling-Chi Wang, Marc Mumby, Matthew C. Chambers, Matthias Mann, Matthias Wilm, Pavel A. Pevzner, Shamil Sunyaev, Stephen Tanner, Vineet Bafna, Ze-Qiang Ma

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