SpectraST is a search engine that compares acquired spectra against a library of pre-identified spectra to which peptide sequences have been assigned. In order to conduct the search, we must first download the appropriate spectral library.
A custom version of the popular open-source search engine X!Tandem is bundled and installed with the TPP. It has been modified from the original distribution by adding the K-Score scoring function, developed by a team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
TPP 本身包含客製化後的開放搜尋軟體 X!Tandem。
內含的 X!Tandem 已被更改並加入 K-Score 功能,該功能由Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 所發展。
We have developed the TPP (and dozens of related tools) to read mass-spec data from a common, open data format. We must therefore first convert the proprietary raw data to this format, called mzML.
For this demo, we will be using a SILAC-labeled Yeast dataset, comprised of 2 runs on a high mass-accuracy Orbitrap instrument, along with a Yeast database appended with decoys. We also include a search parameters file.