tsORFdb: theoretical small open reading frames (ORFs) database and massProphet: peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) tool for unknown small functional ORFs.
Peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF) has become one of the most widely used methods for rapid identification of proteins in proteomics research. Many peaks, however, remain unassigned after PMF analysis, partly because of post-translational modification and the limited scope of protein sequences. Almost all PMF tools employ only known or predicted protein sequences and do not include open reading frames (ORFs) in the genome, which eliminates the chance of finding novel functional peptides. Unlike most tools that search protein sequences from known coding sequences, the tool we developed uses a database for theoretical small ORFs (tsORFs) and a PMF application using a tsORFs database (tsORFdb). The tsORFdb is a database for ORFeome that encompasses all potential tsORFs derived from whole genome sequences as well as the predicted ones. The massProphet system tries to extend the search scope to include the ORFeome using the tsORFdb. The tsORFdb and massProphet should be useful for proteomics research to give information about unknown small ORFs as well as predicted and registered proteins.
Heo
Hyoung-Sam
HS
Interdisciplinary Research Program of Bioinformatics, College of Natural Science, Pusan National University, Gumjung-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea.
Lee
Sanghyuk
S
Kim
Ji Min
JM
Choi
Yeon Ja
YJ
Chung
Hae Young
HY
Oh
S June
SJ
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010449:Peptide Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*