MSFragger: Ultrafast and comprehensive peptide identification in mass spectrometry-based proteomics

Nature Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 513-520

  Kong, Andy T ^a   Leprevost, Felipe V ^a   Avtonomov, Dmitry M ^a   Mellacheruvu, Dattatreya ^a   Nesvizhskii, Alexey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MSFRAGGER PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEK293 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEOGENOMICS; PROTEOMICS; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 85017247712     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4256     Document Type: Article

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