title: The Unipept metaproteomics analysis pipeline.
abstract: Unipept (http://unipept.ugent.be) is a web application that offers a user-friendly way to explore the biodiversity of complex metaproteome samples by providing interactive visualizations. In this article, the updates and changes to Unipept since its initial release are presented. This includes the addition of interactive sunburst and treeview visualizations to the multipeptide analysis, the foundations of an application programming interface (API) and a command line interface, updated data sources, and the open-sourcing of the entire application under the MIT license.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Sciences, Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mesuere
authors.forename: Griet
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Debyser
authors.forename: Maarten
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aerts
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Devreese
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vandamme
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dawyndt
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D006801:Humans; D054892:Metagenome; D064307:Microbiota; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry; D010802:Phylogeny; D040901:Proteomics; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments
keywords: Biodiversity analysis; Bioinformatics; Data visualization; Metaproteomics; Tryptic peptides