Protein Forest has announced three separate institutions will evaluate its Mass Spec Results Analysis Tool (MSRAT) software.
The Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Medical School and the Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Facility at the University of Massachusetts Medical School will use bioinformatics software to enable rapid discovery of the richness of the data produced using the digital Proteomechip (DPC) system.
These studies include glial tumor biomarker discovery, identification of prostate cancer markers in urine and studying disease-associated MHC class I and II peptides from T cells.
The MSRAT bioinformatics software was developed for biologists to help them quickly discover new findings in their proteomic data.
This software maximises their ability to correlate protein expression, post-translational modifications and pI isoforms with disease from their MS/MS-based proteomic studies.
The software analyses large amounts of mass-spec data within minutes, allowing researchers to quickly focus on differences or similarities between samples.
The software also provides visualisation tools such as histograms, Venn diagrams, differential heat maps and virtual 2D gel maps to assist in the meaningful interpretation of MS data.
This software enables researchers to rapidly identify important biologically relevant features from their proteomic experiments.
