title: DBToolkit: processing protein databases for peptide-centric proteomics.
abstract: DBToolkit is a user-friendly, easily extensible tool that allows the processing of protein sequence databases to peptide-centric sequence databases. This processing is primarily aimed at enhancing the useful information content of these databases for use as optimized search spaces for efficient identification of peptide fragmentation spectra obtained by mass spectrometry. In addition, DBToolkit can be used to reliably solve a range of other typical tasks in processing sequence databases.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  DBToolkit is open source under the GNU GPL license. The source code, full user and developer documentation and cross-platform binaries are freely downloadable from the project website at http://genesis.UGent.be/dbtoolkit/
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  lennart.martens@UGent.be
authors: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, A. Baertsoenkaai 3, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. lennart.martens@UGent.be
authors: Lennart
authors: L
authors: Martens
authors: Joël
authors: J
authors: Vandekerckhove
authors: Kris
authors: K
authors: Gevaert
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D010449:Peptide Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D010455:Peptides / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D040901:Proteomics; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides