UK-based Matrix Science has launched a new software platform called 'Mascot Insight' designed to organize, visualize, and compare proteomics data sets derived from mass spectrometry results.
Mascot Insight, which leverages the Mascot Server search engine for protein identification, provides meaningful conclusions to be drawn about changes within or between biological samples.
The new software platform is aimed at meeting the needs of researchers in academia and biopharmaceutical firms with goals ranging from elucidation of cellular processes to biomarker discovery and validation.
Matrix Science founder John Cottrell said one of the great challenges in proteomics research is the very large amount of data generated by modern mass spectrometers, with a single experiment creating hundreds of gigabytes of raw data.
"Mascot Insight can capture the associated Mascot search and quantitation results, organize them, and then allow the researcher to rapidly analyse and query them -- ultimately speeding the discovery and development process," Cottrell said.
With the new software, results and sets of results can be annotated, combined, then viewed as tabular and graphical reports, and can be exported in machine readable formats.