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A cross-platform toolkit for mass spectrometry and proteomics
- Matthew C Chambers1 na1,
- Brendan Maclean2 na1,
- Robert Burke3 na1,
- Dario Amodei4,
- Daniel L Ruderman3,
- Steffen Neumann5,
- Laurent Gatto6,
- Bernd Fischer7,
- Brian Pratt8,
- Jarrett Egertson2,
- Katherine Hoff3,
- Darren Kessner3,
- Natalie Tasman8,
- Nicholas Shulman2,
- Barbara Frewen2,
- Tahmina A Baker2,
- Mi-Youn Brusniak9,
- Christopher Paulse9,
- David Creasy10,
- Lisa Flashner3,
- Kian Kani3,
- Chris Moulding11,
- Sean L Seymour12,
- Lydia M Nuwaysir12,
- Brent Lefebvre12,
- Frank Kuhlmann13,
- Joe Roark13,
- Paape Rainer14,
- Suckau Detlev14,
- Tina Hemenway15,
- Andreas Huhmer15,
- James Langridge16,
- Brian Connolly17,
- Trey Chadick17,
- Krisztina Holly11,
- Josh Eckels17,
- Eric W Deutsch9,
- Robert L Moritz9,
- Jonathan E Katz3,
- David B Agus3,
- Michael MacCoss2,
- David L Tabb1 &
- …
- Parag Mallick3,4
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Mass spectrometry–based proteomics has become an important component of biological research. Numerous proteomics methods have been developed to identify and quantify the proteins in biological and clinical samples1, identify pathways affected by endogenous and exogenous perturbations2 and characterize protein complexes3. Despite successes, the interpretation of vast proteomics data sets remains a challenge. There have been several calls for improvements and standardization of proteomics data analysis frameworks, as well as for an application-programming interface for proteomics data access4,5. In response, we present here the ProteoWizard Toolkit, a robust set of open-source, software libraries and applications designed to facilitate proteomics research. The libraries implement the first-ever, noncommercial, unified data access interface for proteomics, bridging field-standard open formats and all common vendor formats. In addition, diverse software classes enable rapid development of vendor-agnostic proteomics software. Additionally, ProteoWizard projects and applications, building upon the core libraries, are becoming standard tools for enabling significant proteomics inquiries.
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Acknowledgements
This work is supported by the Wunderkinder Foundation, Redstone Family Foundation and Canary Foundation, and the National Cancer Institute and US National Institutes of Health grants and contracts P41 RR011823, CCNE-TR 5U54CA119367, CCNE-T 1U54CA151459, PSOC-MCSTART 5U54CA143907, R01CA126218 and U24CA126479. R.L.M. and C.P. have been supported by National Science Foundation MRI grant No. 0923536. L.G. has been supported by the European Union 7th Framework Program PRIME-XS project, grant agreement number 262067. The authors also thank the ProteoWizard developer community and TPP developer community for their contributions to the project and manuscript.
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Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Matthew C Chambers & David L Tabb
Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Brendan Maclean, Jarrett Egertson, Nicholas Shulman, Barbara Frewen, Tahmina A Baker & Michael MacCoss
Center for Applied Molecular Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Robert Burke, Daniel L Ruderman, Katherine Hoff, Darren Kessner, Lisa Flashner, Kian Kani, Jonathan E Katz, David B Agus & Parag Mallick
Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Dario Amodei & Parag Mallick
Department of Stress & Developmental Biology, Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry, Halle (Saale), Germany
Steffen Neumann
Proteomics Services, Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, Cambridge, England
Laurent Gatto
Genome Biology, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Bernd Fischer
Insilicos, Seattle, Washington, USA
Brian Pratt & Natalie Tasman
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, USA
Mi-Youn Brusniak, Christopher Paulse, Eric W Deutsch & Robert L Moritz
Matrix Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
David Creasy
USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Chris Moulding & Krisztina Holly
AB SCIEX, Foster City, California, USA
Sean L Seymour, Lydia M Nuwaysir & Brent Lefebvre
Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, USA
Frank Kuhlmann & Joe Roark
Bruker Daltonik GmbH, Bremen, Germany
Paape Rainer & Suckau Detlev
Thermo Fisher Scientific, San Jose, California, USA
Tina Hemenway & Andreas Huhmer
Waters Corporation, Manchester, UK
James Langridge
LabKey Software, Seattle, Washington, USA
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