MetaNovo : an open-source pipeline for probabilistic peptide discovery in complex metaproteomic datasets
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ABSTRACT: Results We compared MetaNovo to published results from the MetaPro-IQ pipeline on 8 human mucosal-luminal interface samples, with comparable numbers of peptide and protein identifications, many shared peptide sequences and a similar bacterial taxonomic distribution compared to that found using a matched metagenome database - but simultaneously identified proteins present in the samples that are derived from known gut organisms that were missed by the previous analyses. Finally, MetaNovo was benchmarked on samples of known microbial composition against matched metagenomic and whole genomic database workflows, yielding many more MS/MS for the expected taxa, with improved taxonomic representation, while also highlighting previously described genome sequencing quality concerns for one of the organisms, and providing evidence for a known sample contaminant without prior expectation. Conclusions By estimating taxonomic and peptide level information directly on microbiome samples from tandem mass spectrometry data, MetaNovo enables the simultaneous identification of peptides from all domains of life in metaproteome samples, bypassing the need for curated sequence search databases. We show that the MetaNovo approach to mass spectrometry metaproteomics can be more accurate than current gold standard approaches of tailored or matched genomic database searches, identify sample contaminants without prior expectation and that increases in assigned spectra from this approach can yield novel insights into previously unidentified metaproteomic signals - building on the potential for complex mass spectrometry metaproteomic data to speak for itself. The pipeline source code is available on GitHub and documentation is provided to run the software as a singularity-compatible docker image available from the Docker Hub.
INSTRUMENT(S): Q Exactive
ORGANISM(S): Human Gut Metagenome
SUBMITTER: Matthys Potgieter
LAB HEAD: Nicola Mulder
PROVIDER: PXD030708 | Pride | 2023-05-16
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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