Title
Top-down analysis of protein samples by de novo sequencing techniques.
Abstract
Motivation: Recent technological advances have made high-resolution mass spectrometers affordable to many laboratories, thus boosting rapid development of top-down mass spectrometry, and implying a need in efficient methods for analyzing this kind of data. Results: We describe a method for analysis of protein samples from top-down tandem mass spectrometry data, which capitalizes on de novo sequencing of fragments of the proteins present in the sample. Our algorithm takes as input a set of de novo amino acid strings derived from the given mass spectra using the recently proposed Twister approach, and combines them into aggregated strings endowed with offsets. The former typically constitute accurate sequence fragments of sufficiently well-represented proteins from the sample being analyzed, while the latter indicate their location in the protein sequence, and also bear information on post-translational modifications and fragmentation patterns.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1093/bioinformatics/btw307
BIOINFORMATICS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
32
18
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1367-4803
1
0.36
References 
Authors
4
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kira Vyatkina1175.05
Si Wu261.70
Lennard J. Dekker3261.13
Martijn M. VanDuijn410.36
Xiaowen Liu5886.51
Nikola Tolic6254.02
Theo M. Luider7531.64
Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic810.36
pavel a pevzner92575370.54