Tools and links

Databanks

• http://www.expasy.org/sprot/ - Swiss-Prot Protein
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ - National Center for Biotechnology Information
• http://polymers.msel.nist.gov/maldirecipes/ - Recipes for MS analysis of polymers by MALDI

Background Information

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Spectrometry - Detailed information on all aspects of mass spectrometry
• http://www.abrf.org/ - The Association of Biomolecular Research Facilities
• http://www.asms.org/ - American Society for Mass Spectrometry
• The abc's (and xyz's) of peptide sequencing, a Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology article by Hanno Steen and Matthias Mann
• Interpreting the protein language using proteomics, a Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology article by Ole Jensen

Online tools

• http://www.expasy.org/tools/findpept.html - Identification of peptides resulting from unspecific cleavage of proteins.
• http://www.expasy.org/tools/ - Proteomic tools
• http://prospector.ucsf.edu/cgi-bin/msform.cgi?form=msdigest- A protein digestion tool that performs an in silico enzymatic digestion of a protein sequence.
• http://prospector.ucsf.edu/ - Proteomics tools for mining sequence databases in conjunction with Mass Spectrometry experiments.
• http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetPhos/ - Predictions for serine, threonine and tyrosine phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic proteins.
• http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/ - Proteomic tools: A Database of Protein Post Translational Modifications
• http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/~wallace/MassSpectator_intro.html - Calculates the area beneath peaks from mass spectra without smoothing or preprocessing of the data