TDFragMapper: a visualization tool for evaluating experimental parameters in top-down proteomics

Bioinformatics. 2022 Jan 27;38(4):1136-1138. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab784.

Abstract

Motivation: We present a new software-tool allowing an easy visualization of fragment ions and thus a rapid evaluation of key experimental parameters on the sequence coverage obtained for the MS/MS (tandem mass spectrometry) analysis of intact proteins. Our tool can process data obtained from various deconvolution and fragment assignment software.

Results: We demonstrate that TDFragMapper can rapidly highlight the experimental fragmentation parameters that are critical to the characterization of intact proteins of various size using top-down proteomics.

Availability and implementation: TDFragMapper, a demonstration video and user tutorial are freely available for academic use at https://msbio.pasteur.fr/tdfragmapper; all data are thus available from the ProteomeXchange consortium (identifier PXD024643).

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Proteins / chemistry
  • Proteomics* / methods
  • Software
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry*

Substances

  • Proteins