title: The wildcat toolbox: a set of perl script utilities for use in peptide mass spectral database searching and proteomics experiments.
abstract: We describe in this communication a set of functional perl script utilities for use in peptide mass spectral database searching and proteomics experiments, known as the Wildcat Toolbox. These are all freely available for download from our laboratory Web site (http://proteomics.arizona.edu/toolbox.html) as a combined zip file, and can also be accessed via the Proteome Commons Web site (www.proteomecommons.org) in the tools section. We make them available to other potential users in the spirit of open source software development; we do not have the resources to provide any significant technical support for them, but we hope users will share both bugs and improvements with the community at large.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. paul.haynes@chem.mq.edu.au
authors.forename: Paul A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Haynes
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Radabaugh
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Galligan
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Breci
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rohrbough
authors.forename: Fatimah
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hickman
authors.forename: Nirav
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Merchant
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D011381:Programming Languages; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein; D012984:Software