Journal
METABOLITES
Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/metabo12080706
Keywords
peptidic natural products; bioinformatics; mass spectrometry; visualization; software
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- Russian Science Foundation [20-74-00032]
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This study presents NPvis, a visualizer for evaluating PNP-MS/MS matches. The tool allows researchers to assess the correctness of the matches by mapping annotated spectrum peaks to corresponding PNP fragments. It works even if the exact chemical structure of the matching PNP is unknown.
Peptidic natural products (PNPs) represent a medically important class of secondary metabolites that includes antibiotics, anti-inflammatory and antitumor agents. Advances in tandem mass spectra (MS/MS) acquisition and in silico database search methods have enabled high-throughput PNP discovery. However, the resulting spectra annotations are often error-prone and their validation remains a bottleneck. Here, we present NPvis, a visualizer suitable for the evaluation of PNP-MS/MS matches. The tool interactively maps annotated spectrum peaks to the corresponding PNP fragments and allows researchers to assess the match correctness. NPvis accounts for the wide chemical diversity of PNPs that prevents the use of the existing proteomics visualizers. Moreover, NPvis works even if the exact chemical structure of the matching PNP is unknown. The tool is available online and as a standalone application. We hope that it will benefit the community by streamlining PNP data analysis and validation.
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