Requirements

Introduction

This vignette gives an overview about requirements for flowTraceR. The outputs of the following software applications are supported:

  • Spectronaut (v15)
  • MaxQuant (v2.0.3)
  • DIA-NN (v1.8)
  • Proteome Discoverer (v2.4)

Spectronaut

For flowTraceR the following columns are required:

  • PG.ProteinGroups (User Manual definition: One or several protein groups)
  • EG.PrecursorId (User Manual definition: Unique Id for the precursor: [modified sequence] plus [charge])

MaxQuant

For flowTraceR the following files and respective columns are required:

  • evidence.txt
    • Modified sequence (User Manual definition: Sequence representation including the post-translational modifications)
    • Charge (User Manual definition: The charge-state of the precursor ion)
    • Protein group IDs (User Manual definition: The identifier of the protein-group this redundant peptide sequence is associated with, which can be used to look up the extended protein information in the file ‘proteinGroups.txt’.)
  • proteinGroups.txt
    • ProteinIDs (User Manual definition: Identifier(s) of protein(s) contained in the protein group)
    • id (User Manual definition: A unique (consecutive) identifier for each row in the proteinGroups table, which is used to cross-link the information in this file with the information stored in the other files.)

DIA-NN

For flowTraceR the following columns are required:

  • Precursor.Id
  • Protein.Group (User Manual definition: inferred proteins)

Proteome Discoverer

For flowTraceR the following files and respective columns are required:

  • PSMs.txt
    • Protein Accessions (User Manual definition: Displays the unique identifiers (accessions) of all proteins that include the given peptide sequence.)
    • Annotated Sequence (User Manual definition: Displays the names of the flanking residues of a peptide in a protein.)
    • Modifications (User Manual definition: Displays the static and dynamic modifications identified in the peptide.)
    • Charge (User Manual definition: Displays the charge state of the peptide.)