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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Methods. 2013 May 21;61(3):287–298. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2013.05.004

Table 1.

Current Software Tools for Development of Large Scale Targeted Proteomic Assays

Software Vendor/Lab Publication Date Platform
1. Assay Development

Databases and Spectral Libraries
PeptideAtlas Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) 2006 Web
SRMAtlas ISB 2009 Web
PRIDE Martens, EMBL/EBI 2006 Web
GPMdb Gpmdb 2004 Windows
NIST Peptide Mass Spectral Libraries NIST 2009 Web
PABST Seattle Proteome center 2006 Web

Peptide and Transition Selection and Method Export
Skyline MacCoss Lab, U Washington 2010 Windows
MRMPilot ABSciex Commercial Windows
Pinpoint Thermo Scientific Commercial Windows
MRMaid Bessant, Cranfield U. 2009 Web
ATAQS Aebersold, ISB 2011 Web

2. MRM Data Collection
iRT calculator Biognosys 2012 Web
scheduled MRM (sMRM) AB Sciex, Waters, Thermo Scientific, and Agilent Commercial Windows
iSRM (intelligent MRM) Thermo Scientific Commercial Windows
xMRM (triggered MRM) AB Sciex Commercial Windows
tMRM (triggered MRM) Agilent N/A Windows

3. Data Analysis
Peak Detection and Integration
Multiquant AB Sciex Commercial Windows
Skyline MacCoss Lab, U Washington 2010 Windows
MRMer McIntosh Lab, ISB 2008 Java
Pinpoint Thermo Scientific Commercial Windows
OpenMS Kohlbacher & Reinert, FU Berlin & U of Tübingen 2008 Windows, Linux, Mac (C++ library)
ATAQS Seattle Proteome Center, ISB 2011 Web
TIQAM Seattle Proteome Center, ISB 2008 Java (Mac, Win, Linux)
mQUEST Biognosys 2011 Linux on a VM; Windows

Quaility Assessment and Data Filtering
mProphet Biognosys 2011 Linux on a VM; Windows
Audit Carr, Broad 2010 Web
Multiquant AB Sciex Commercial Windows

Fold change or statistical analysis
SRMstats Vitek Lab, Purdue 2012 Windows, Linux, Mac (R libraries)
QuaSAR Carr, Broad N/A Web