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Sequence Composer

If this is your first visit, please read Current Proteomics, 2008, 5, 267-274 (Amino Acid Sequence Database Suitable for the Protein and Proteome Analysis.).If you include results from Sequence Composer in a publication, please cite Current Proteomics, 2008, 5, 267-274.

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▼ What is Sequence Composer?
  • Database generation software for improving peptide/protein identification accuracy by incorporating mature protein structure and diversity into search algorithms .  
  • Public protein databases (such as UNIPROT and NCBI Nr) generally contain the amino acid sequences of various proteins, but the reality is that protein spectra obtained from mass spectrometry are based on peptides and proteins characterized by diversity and mature protein structures. Sequence Composer uses the annotations appended to each amino acid sequence to create a database of all possible sequences incorporating all annotation combinations. Using Sequence Composer databases improves accuracy of search results when running mass spectrometry assays.

 

Benefits:

*        Use Sequence Composer databases in search algorithms for peptides/proteins obtained from mass spectrometry to improve identification scores at low cost

*        Significantly reduce time and labor associated with ascertaining validity of potential false negatives by analyzing amino acid sequence structure

*        The user-friendly, graphical UI allows for great flexibility in database creation according to need

 

Feature :  
 
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       Generates amino acid sequences incorporating diversity and mature protein  structures Sequence databases generated incorporate genetic diversity, transcript product diversity, and all possible protein modifications included in annotations for each sequence.

 
*      Customizable processing conditions User-selectable processing conditions (shown            below) based on annotations present in downloaded UNIPROT flat files.
     VAR_SEQ(Variants from the DNA sequence)
     VARIANT(Variants from the alternative splicing events)
     CHAIN,PEPTIDE,PROPEP=Matured Form(Main chain processing)

 

 
*       Refine search results based on accession and description ②
      Users can search and select proteins for processing  based on accession and     

    description. Feature information is shown for proteins during selection.  

 

 
*       View statistics of post-processing sequences 
      Users can review the total number of amino acid sequences
      generated by the software. (Expansions of statistics functions planned).   

 

 
*       Processing time in seconds
      Only about 47 seconds is required to process the uniprot_sprot_human.dat file and    

      generate a complete database. (Using a PC with 1 GB memory)  

 

 
     Presented as poster at 55th Conference of the American Society for Mass  Spectrometry 
   
 Patent pending
   
 Product of joint research with Takao Kawakami of Tokyo Medical University
Result :  
 
* Improving peptide identification accuracy

The same LCMS/MS results matched with a publically available database (X axis) and one generated by Sequence Composer incorporating mature structures and diversity (Y axis). Low-scoring sequences on the X axis scored higher on the Y axis.

 

 
* Post-processing amino acid sequence 

Deleting the signal protein from the sequence causes a return on the N-terminal peptide, allowing identification of the alpha chain without relying on the database annotations. The score also improved through using the alpha chain sequence alone.

 

 

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