Computational Analysis of Unassigned High Quality MS/MS Spectra in Proteomic Datasets

摘要

In a typical shotgun proteomics experiments, a significant number of high quality MS/MS spectra remain “unassigned”. The main focus of this work is to improve our understanding of various sources of unassigned high quality spectra. To achieve this, we designed an iterative computational approach for more efficient interrogation of MS/MS data. The method involves multiple stages of database searching with different search parameters, spectral library searching, blind searching for modified peptides, and genomic database searching. The method is applied to a large publicly available shotgun proteomic dataset.