IDENTIFICATION OF BIOMOLECULES THROUGH EXPRESSION PATTERNS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

摘要

Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer programming useful in identifying proteins, peptides, carbohydrates, and other biomolecules, or for a validation of an identification of proteins, peptides, carbohydrates, and other biomolecules, is described. In particular, the invention provides systems, methods, apparatus, and programming useful for identifying proteins and other precursor biomolecules using expression patterns associated with peptides or other biomolecule fragments expressed from analyte samples, and data representing such expression patterns, and for determining and improving confidence levels associated with identification of precursor biomolecules using such methods, through the correlation of expression patterns for fragments associated with precursor biomolecules.