Title |
ProtQuant: a tool for the label-free quantification of MudPIT proteomics data
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Published in |
BMC Bioinformatics, November 2007
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2105-8-s7-s24 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Susan M Bridges, G Bryce Magee, Nan Wang, W Paul Williams, Shane C Burgess, Bindu Nanduri |
Abstract |
Effective and economical methods for quantitative analysis of high throughput mass spectrometry data are essential to meet the goals of directly identifying, characterizing, and quantifying proteins from a particular cell state. Multidimensional Protein Identification Technology (MudPIT) is a common approach used in protein identification. Two types of methods are used to detect differential protein expression in MudPIT experiments: those involving stable isotope labelling and the so-called label-free methods. Label-free methods are based on the relationship between protein abundance and sampling statistics such as peptide count, spectral count, probabilistic peptide identification scores, and sum of peptide Sequest XCorr scores (SigmaXCorr). Although a number of label-free methods for protein quantification have been described in the literature, there are few publicly available tools that implement these methods. We describe ProtQuant, a Java-based tool for label-free protein quantification that uses the previously published SigmaXCorr method for quantification and includes an improved method for handling missing data. |
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