DISC: DISulfide linkage Characterization from tandem mass spectra

摘要

Motivation: Enzymatic digestion under appropriate reducing conditions followed by mass spectrometry analysis has emerged as the primary method for disulfide bond analysis. The large amount of mass spectral data collected in the mass spectrometry experiment requires effective computational approaches to automate the interpretation process. Although different approaches have been developed for such purpose, they always choose to ignore the frequently observed internal ion fragments and they lack a reasonable quality control strategy and calibrated scoring scheme for the statistical validation and ranking of the reported results.