PatternLab V Handles Multiplex Spectra in Shotgun Proteomic Searches and Increases Identification
Milan Avila Clasen, Marlon Dias Mariano Santos, Louise Ulrich Kurt, Juliana de Saldanha da Gama Fischer, Amanda C. Camillo-Andrade, Lucas A. Sales, Tatiana de Arruda Campos Brasil de Souza, Diogo Borges Lima, Fábio C. Gozzo, Richard H. Valente, Rosario Durán, Valmir C. Barbosa, Paulo C. Carvalho
Abstract
Complex protein mixtures typically generate many tandem mass spectra produced by different peptides coisolated in the gas phase. Widely adopted proteomic data analysis environments usually fail to identify most of these spectra, succeeding at best in identifying only one of the multiple cofragmenting peptides. We present PatternLab V (PLV), an updated version of PatternLab that integrates the YADA 3 deconvolution algorithm to handle such cases efficiently. In general, we expect an increase of 10% in spectral identifications when dealing with complex proteomic samples. PLV is freely available at http://patternlabforproteomics.org.