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ArticleAnalytical chemistry2025

TopLib: Building and Searching Top-Down Mass Spectral Libraries for Proteoform Identification.

Kun Li, Haixu Tang, Xiaowen Liu

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Article in Analytical chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Kun LiDeming Department of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8083-4990
Haixu TangLuddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47408, United States.
Xiaowen LiuDeming Department of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, United States.

Funding

Computational tools for top down mass spectrometry based proteoform identification and proteogenomicsR01GM118470 · NIGMS · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI Xiaowen Liu · 2016 to 2026
$2.7M
Quantitative top-down proteomics of human colorectal cancer cells and tumorsR01CA247863 · NCI · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HUMMON, AMANDA B., LIU, XIAOWEN · 2021 to 2025
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA247863NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM118470
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mass spectral library search is a widely used approach for spectral identification in mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics. While numerous methods exist for building and searching bottom-up mass spectral libraries, there is a lack of software tools for top-down mass spectral libraries. To fill the gap, we introduce TopLib, a new software package designed for building and searching top-down spectral libraries. TopLib utilizes an efficient spectral representation technique to reduce database size and improve query speed and performance. We systematically evaluated various spectral representation techniques and scoring functions for top-down spectral clustering and search. Our results demonstrate that TopLib is significantly faster and yields higher reproducibility in proteoform identification compared to conventional database search methods in top-down MS.

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Mass SpectrometryProteomicsSoftwareDatabases, Protein

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PMID40440726
PMCPMC12163883

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