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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 9.
Published in final edited form as: Mass Spectrom Rev. 2017 Jul 9:10.1002/mas.21540. doi: 10.1002/mas.21540

Table 2.

Peptide spectrum matching pipelines supported by Skyline with BiblioSpec for spectral library-building.

Peptide spectrum matching pipeline Type Creator Peptide ID file Spectrum file
Mascot Proprietary Matrix Science (Perkins et al 1999) .dat
ByOnic Proprietary Protein Metrics, Inc. (Bern, Cai, and Goldberg 2007) .mzid .MGF, .mzXML, .mzML
Comet/SEQUEST/Percolator Open source Dept Genome Sciences, University of Washington (Eng, Jahan, and Hoopmann 2013; Eng, McCormack, and Yates 1994; Kall et al 2007) .perc.xml (.sqt) .cms2, .ms2
ID Picker (Myrimatch) Open source MSRC Bioinformatics, Vanderbilt University (Tabb, Fernando, and Chambers 2007) .idpXML .mzXML, .mzML
MaxQuant Andromeda freeware Max Planck Institute (Cox et al 2011) msms.txt
Morpheus Open source Coon lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wenger and Coon 2013) .pep.xml, .pep.XML, .pepXML .mzXML, .mzML
MS-GF+ freeware Pevzner lab, UCSD (Kim et al 2010) .mzid, .pepXML .MGF, .mzXML, .mzML
OMSSA Open source NCBI (Geer et al 2004) .pep.xml, .pep.XML, .pepXML .mzXML, .mzML
PEAKS DB Proprietary Bioinformatics Solutions, Inc. (Zhang et al 2012) .pep.xml, .pep.XML, .pepXML .mzXML, .mzML
Proteomics Identifications (PRIDE) EMBL-EBI (Martens et al 2005) .pride.xml
Protein Pilot Proprietary SCIEX (Shilov et al 2007) .group.xml
Protein Prospector Open source UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility (Baker and Clauser) pepXML/mzXML
Proteome Discoverer Proprietary Thermo .msf
Scaffold Proprietary Proteome Software (Searle 2010) .mzid .MGF, .mzXML, .mzML
Spectrum Mill Proprietary Agilent .pep.xml, .pep.XML, .pepXML .mzXML, .mzML
Trans-Proteomic Pipeline (TPP) Open source Aebersold lab, Institute for Systems Biology (Deutsch et al 2015) pepXML/mzXML
X! Tandem Open source Global Proteome Machine Organization (Craig and Beavis 2004) .xtan.xml
ProteinLynx Global SERVER (PLGS) - MSe Proprietary Waters final_fragment.csv
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