iPiG: integrating peptide spectrum matches into genome browser visualizations

PLoS One. 2012;7(12):e50246. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050246. Epub 2012 Dec 4.

Abstract

Proteogenomic approaches have gained increasing popularity, however it is still difficult to integrate mass spectrometry identifications with genomic data due to differing data formats. To address this difficulty, we introduce iPiG as a tool for the integration of peptide identifications from mass spectrometry experiments into existing genome browser visualizations. Thereby, the concurrent analysis of proteomic and genomic data is simplified and proteomic results can directly be compared to genomic data. iPiG is freely available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/ipig/. It is implemented in Java and can be run as a stand-alone tool with a graphical user-interface or integrated into existing workflows. Supplementary data are available at PLOS ONE online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Graphics
  • Databases, Protein*
  • Genomics*
  • Peptides / chemistry*
  • Peptides / genetics
  • Proteomics
  • User-Computer Interface

Substances

  • Peptides

Grants and funding

Funded by the Robert Koch-Institute. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.