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ArticleScientific reports2016

Complete De Novo Assembly of Monoclonal Antibody Sequences.

Ngoc Hieu Tran, M Ziaur Rahman, Lin He, Lei Xin, Baozhen Shan, Ming Li

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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6 authors.

Ngoc Hieu TranDavid R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
M Ziaur RahmanDavid R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Lin HeBioinformatics Solutions Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Lei XinBioinformatics Solutions Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Baozhen ShanBioinformatics Solutions Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Ming LiDavid R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

De novo protein sequencing is one of the key problems in mass spectrometry-based proteomics, especially for novel proteins such as monoclonal antibodies for which genome information is often limited or not available. However, due to limitations in peptides fragmentation and coverage, as well as ambiguities in spectra interpretation, complete de novo assembly of unknown protein sequences still remains challenging. To address this problem, we propose an integrated system, ALPS, which for the first time can automatically assemble full-length monoclonal antibody sequences. Our system integrates de novo sequencing peptides, their quality scores and error-correction information from databases into a weighted de Bruijn graph to assemble protein sequences. We evaluated ALPS performance on two antibody data sets, each including a heavy chain and a light chain. The results show that ALPS was able to assemble three complete monoclonal antibody sequences of length 216-441 AA, at 100% coverage, and 96.64-100% accuracy.

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Amino AcidsAnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalAutomationChickensChromatography, LiquidChymotrypsinComputational BiologyContig MappingGlycosylationHumansImmunoglobulin GMetalloendopeptidasesMuramidasePeptidesReproducibility of ResultsAmino AcidsAntibodies, MonoclonalChymotrypsinendoproteinase Asp-NImmunoglobulin GMetalloendopeptidasesMuramidasePeptidesTrypsin

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PMID27562653
PMCPMC4999880

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