Waters and Proteome Software have announced their intention to collaborate to provide compatibility between their data acquisition and interpretation software.
Researchers acquiring high-definition proteomics data with the Waters IdentityE High Definition proteomics system will be able to bring that data into Proteome Software's Scaffold 2.1 visualisation software, providing high accuracy protein identifications.
The firms announced their collaboration at the Human Protein Organisation's (HUPO) seventh Annual World Congress in Amsterdam.
The new version of the software will be released in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Laboratories identifying proteins involved in key biological processes face a complex task because of the sheer number and dynamic range of proteins present in a sample.
Identifying proteins accurately with high-sequence coverage is made easier with research-grade mass spectrometers and informatics.
James Langridge PhD, director of proteomics business at Waters, said: 'The ability of Scaffold to visualise our IdentityE results will allow scientists to maximise the information from our proprietary LC-MSE technology.' Mark Turner, president of Proteome Software, added: 'Researchers will improve their chances of identifying significant proteins if they can easily visualise mass spec data in a biological context.' Commenting on the collaborative work by Waters and Proteome Software, Arthur Moseley PhD, director of proteomics at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University's School of Medicine, said: 'The transformation of data into knowledge from qualitative proteomics experiments is greatly enhanced by combining the comprehensive peptide ion accounting informatics of the IdentityE software with Scaffold's comprehensive MS/MS meta-analysis tools.
'Integrating protein and peptide identifications with biological function and biological compartmentalisation information significantly increases the information content of the data returned from the proteomics laboratory.'
