Mon, Jul 28, 2003: PEAKS Batch de novo Sequencing Software Released

Waterloo, July 28, 2003. Bioinformatics Solutions Inc. (BSI) today announced the release of PEAKS Batch, a high throughput version of PEAKS Studio, BSI's auto de novo MS/MS peptide sequencing software. PEAKS Batch is scriptable with a command-line interface, designed for large quantities of MS/MS data. Internal benchmarking tests have demonstrated processing speeds of 5 seconds per spectrum. This rapid sequencing rate, in combination with superior accuracy, makes PEAKS Batch a powerful part of the protein identification pipeline. PEAKS Batch is a valuable tool when used on it's own or in conjunction with database search methods. Spectra that provide poor or negative database search results may yield valuable information when sequenced by PEAKS - this information no longer needs to be ignored or discarded. PEAKS accepts MS/MS data input in Micromass (.PKL), Sequest (.DTA), Mascot Generic (.MGF) and TXT formats. Results are provided in both XML and FASTA formats. For more information please the BSI website http://www.bioinformaticssolutions.com/.