Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important worldwide crops. The genome has been available for over 10 years and has undergone several rounds of annotation. University of Liverpool researchers...
Read More »REQUIEM – RElative QUantitation Inferred by Evaluating Mixtures
Motivated by the lack of easily implementable and generally applicable strategies to increase and assess data accuracy, researchers from the University of Georgia devised a novel label-free approach, termed REQUIEM, to address challenges in relative quantitation. For comparing the relative ...
Read More »Proteome profiling outperforms transcriptome profiling for co-expression based gene function prediction
Co-expression of mRNAs under multiple conditions is commonly used to infer co-functionality of their gene products despite well-known limitations of this “guilt-by-association” (GBA) approach. Recent advancements in mass spectrometry-based proteomic technologies have enabled global expression profiling at the protein level; ...
Read More »NIH grants $1M for discovery of proteoforms with RNA sequencing modeling
INDIANAPOLIS — Opening the door to a better understanding of proteins and our ability to treat and prevent diseases, the National Institutes of Health awarded $1.18 million to faculty at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI ...
Read More »Combining RNA-Seq Proteogenomics and Global Post-Translational Modification (G-PTM) Search Strategy Reveals Human Proteomic Variation
Mass spectrometry-based proteomic analysis underestimates proteomic variation due to the absence of variant peptides and posttranslational modifications (PTMs) from standard protein databases. Each individual carries thousands of missense mutations that lead to single amino acid variants, but these are missed ...
Read More »Generating Sample-Specific Databases for Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomic Analysis by Using RNA Sequencing
Mass spectrometry-based methods allow for the direct, comprehensive analysis of expressed proteins and their quantification among different conditions. However, in general identification of proteins by assigning experimental mass spectra to peptide sequences of proteins relies on matching mass spectra to ...
Read More »Strategies for transcriptional splice variant detection
The advent and improvement of high-throughput sequencing over the past decade leveraged the study of whole genomes and transcriptomes of different organisms at lower costs. In transcriptomics, RNA-Seq expands our capacity to understand gene expression in different tissues and pathologies, ...
Read More »Using galaxy-P to leverage RNA-Seq for the discovery of novel protein variations
Current practice in mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics is to identify peptides by comparison of experimental mass spectra with theoretical mass spectra derived from a reference protein database; however, this strategy necessarily fails to detect peptide and protein sequences that are ...
Read More »Black widow toxin arsenal uncovered by multi-tissue transcriptomics and venom proteomics
Animal venoms attract enormous interest given their potential for pharmacological discovery and understanding the evolution of natural chemistries. Next-generation transcriptomics and proteomics provide unparalleled, but underexploited, capabilities for venom characterization. A team led by researcher at the University of Massachusetts ...
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