Mass spectrometry-based protein identification by integrating de novo sequencing with database searching

peer-reviewed · BMC Bioinformatics · 2013

peer-reviewed · BMC Bioinformatics · 2013. Penghao Wang et al. BACKGROUND: Mass spectrometry-based protein identification is a very challenging task. The main…
Date 2013-01-21
Type peer-reviewed
Venue BMC Bioinformatics
Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Contribution adjacent
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-14-S2-S24
Citations (OpenAlex) 32
Venue 2-year citedness 4.50

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Mass spectrometry-based protein identification is a very challenging task. The main identification approaches include de novo sequencing and database searching. Both approaches have shortcomings, so an integrative approach has been developed. The integrative approach firstly infers partial peptide sequences, known as tags, directly from tandem spectra through de novo sequencing, and then puts these sequences into a database search to see if a close peptide match can be found. However the current implementation of this integrative approach has several limitations. Firstly, simplistic de novo sequencing is applied and only very short sequence tags are used. Secondly, most integrative methods apply an algorithm similar to BLAST to search for exact sequence matches and do not accommodate sequence errors well. Thirdly, by applying these methods the integrated de novo sequencing makes a limited contribution to the scoring model which is still largely based on database searching. RESULTS: We have developed a new integrative protein identification method which can integrate de novo sequencing more efficiently into database searching. Evaluated on large real datasets, our method outperforms popular identification methods.

Authors

  1. Penghao Wang · University of New South Wales
  2. Susan R. Wilson · Australian National University, University of New South Wales

Methods and tools

  • NovoDB: Protein identification method integrating de novo sequencing with database searching.

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