330,000 Synthesized Peptides Represent Much of the Human Proteome
A collaboration of German, American and Swiss scientists has created a proteomics structural database of more than 330,000 synthesized peptides. Quoting directly: “We describe ProteomeTools, a project building molecular and digital tools from the human proteome to facilitate biomedical research. Here we report the generation and multimodal liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry analysis of >330,000 synthetic tryptic peptides representing essentially all canonical human gene products, and we exemplify the utility of these data in several applications. The resource (available at http://www.proteometools.org) will be extended to >1 million peptides, and all data will be shared with the community via ProteomicsDB and ProteomeXchange.” MORE
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