sapFinder: an R/Bioconductor package for detection of variant peptides in shotgun proteomics experiments

Bo Wen; Shaohang Xu; Gloria M Sheynkman; Qiang Feng; Liang Lin; Quanhui Wang; Xun Xu; Jun Wang; Siqi Liu

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu397

sapFinder: an R/Bioconductor package for detection of variant peptides in shotgun proteomics experiments

Bioinformatics. 2014 Nov 1;30(21):3136-8. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu397. Epub 2014 Jul 22.

Authors

Bo Wen¹, Shaohang Xu¹, Gloria M Sheynkman¹, Qiang Feng², Liang Lin¹, Quanhui Wang², Xun Xu¹, Jun Wang³, Siqi Liu²

Affiliations

¹ BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2200, Denmark, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, Princess Al Jawhara Albrahim Center of Excellence in the Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia and Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau 999078, China.
² BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2200, Denmark, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, Princess Al Jawhara Albrahim Center of Excellence in the Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia and Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau 999078, China BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2200, Denmark, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, Princess Al Jawhara Albrahim Center of Excellence in the Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia and Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau 999078, China.
³ BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2200, Denmark, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, Princess Al Jawhara Albrahim Center of Excellence in the Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia and Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau 999078, China BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2200, Denmark, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, Princess Al Jawhara Albrahim Center of Excellence in the Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia and Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau 999078, China BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2200, Denmark, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, Princess Al Jawhara Albrahim Center of Excellence in the Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia and Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau 999078, China BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2200, Denmark, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, Princess Al Jawhara Albrahim Center of Excellence in the Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia and Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau 999078, Ch

Abstract

Single nucleotide variations (SNVs) located within a reading frame can result in single amino acid polymorphisms (SAPs), leading to alteration of the corresponding amino acid sequence as well as function of a protein. Accurate detection of SAPs is an important issue in proteomic analysis at the experimental and bioinformatic level. Herein, we present sapFinder, an R software package, for detection of the variant peptides based on tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)-based proteomics data. This package automates the construction of variation-associated databases from public SNV repositories or sample-specific next-generation sequencing (NGS) data and the identification of SAPs through database searching, post-processing and generation of HTML-based report with visualized interface.

Availability and implementation: sapFinder is implemented as a Bioconductor package in R. The package and the vignette can be downloaded at http://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/sapFinder.html and are provided under a GPL-2 license.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Amino Acid Substitution*
Genetic Variation
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Peptides / chemistry
Peptides / genetics*
Proteomics / methods*
Software*
Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Substances

Peptides