Clustering is key to lighting up the dark proteome
Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 10:31
in Biology & Nature
A new approach that organizes previously unused mass spectra from proteomics studies gives scientists the ability to use these spectra to gain more information about proteins in a wide range of organisms. Scientists from the University of California-San Diego and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have created a vast spectral archive from more than a billion mass spectra acquired at PNNL between 2001 and 2009. They describe their approach in the July issue of Nature Methods.