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ArticleJournal of proteome research2025

Comet Fragment-Ion Indexing for Enhanced Peptide Sequencing.

Christopher D McGann, Erik J Bergstrom, Vagisha Sharma, Lilian R Heil, Qing Yu, Jimmy K Eng, Devin K Schweppe

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Article in Journal of proteome research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Open-Source and FAIR Research Software for Proteomics.Journal of proteome research · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Christopher D McGannDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle 98105, Washington, United States.
Erik J BergstromDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle 98105, Washington, United States.
Vagisha SharmaUniversity of Washington Proteomics Resource, Seattle 98105, Washington, United States.
Lilian R HeilThermoFisher Scientific, San Jose 95134, California, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9462-7327
Qing YuDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Worcester 01655, Massachusetts, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0468-5353
Jimmy K EngUniversity of Washington Proteomics Resource, Seattle 98105, Washington, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6352-6737
Devin K SchweppeDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle 98105, Washington, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3241-6276

Funding

Technology for evaluating drug-binding responses to small-molecule perturbationR35GM150919 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Devin Karl Schweppe · 2023 to 2026
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM150919
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fragment ion indexing has significantly improved the efficiency of proteomics database search tools. This work implements fragment ion indexing in Comet, a widely used, open-source search engine. We demonstrate that this enhancement maintains scoring and identification accuracy while substantially increasing peptide spectral matching speeds across multiple applications, including open modification searches, immunopeptidomics, and real-time searches. Comet-FI reduced search speeds by up to 94%, enabling the rapid analysis of complex data types like immunopeptidomes. Fragment-ion indexing enables Comet to keep pace with modern instrumentation and expanding applications in proteomics, reinforcing its utility in diverse proteomics workflows and its integration with a wide range of proteomics tools and platforms.

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Peptide FragmentsProteomicsSearch EngineSequence Analysis, ProteinSoftwareDatabases, ProteinHumansPeptidesPeptide FragmentsPeptidescomet search enginedatabase searchingfragment ion indexingimmunopeptidomicspeptide spectrum matchingreal-time search

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PMID40526826
PMCPMC13232765

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