Achievement

IGERT Trainee Jignesh Parikh in Parikh, J. R., Askenazi, M., Ficarro, S. B., Cashorali, T., Webber, J. T., Blank, N. C., Zhang, Y., & Marto, J. A. (2009). multiplierz: An Extensible API Based Desktop Environment for Proteomics Data Analysis. BMC Bioinformatics: Software (Submitted)

Efficient analysis of mass spectrometry-based proteomics experiments requires access to native mass spectrometry files, output from algorithms that assign peptide sequence to MS/MS spectra, and annotation for proteins and pathways from various database sources. We describe multiplierz, a flexible and open-source desktop environment for comprehensive proteomics data analysis. We use this framework to expose a prototype version of our recently proposed common API (mzAPI) designed for direct access to proprietary mass spectrometry files. multiplierz supports generation of information rich, portable spreadsheet-based reports and can be deployed by end users with little or no system administration support.