TPP:Supported Search Engines

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Contents 1 what is a search engine? 2 supported search engines 2.1 COMET 2.2 X!Tandem 2.3 SEQUEST 2.4 MSGF+ 2.5 Inspect 2.6 MyriMatch 2.7 ProbID 2.8 Mascot 2.9 Phenyx

what is a search engine?

In this context, a "search engine" is a tool that attempts to assign a peptide sequence to a MS/MS (or MS2) spectra.

supported search engines

The TPP now officially works with these search engines:

COMET

COMET open-source database search engine provided with TPP (as of version 4.7.1)

X!Tandem

X!Tandem is a open-source, free search engine. X!Tandem with the K-Score plugin is now distributed as part of the Windows TPP (as of version 3.2.1).

SEQUEST

SEQUEST is a commercial search engine, currently sold by Thermo.

MSGF+

MSGF+

Inspect

Inspect

MyriMatch

MyriMatch open-source tandem mass spectral peptide identification by multivariate hypergeometric analysis

ProbID

ProbIDis an open-source, freely-available SPC developed search engine.

Mascot

Mascot is a commercial search engine, distributed by Matrix Science.

Phenyx

Phenyx is a commercial search engine.