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Sorting protein lists with nwCompare: A simple and fast algorithm for n ‐way comparison of proteomic data files
Author(s) -
Pont Frédéric,
Fournié Jean Jacques
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
proteomics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.26
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1615-9861
pISSN - 1615-9853
DOI - 10.1002/pmic.200900667
Subject(s) - computer science , sorting , proteome , simple (philosophy) , proteomics , software , character (mathematics) , data mining , algorithm , information retrieval , computational biology , bioinformatics , programming language , biology , mathematics , genetics , philosophy , geometry , epistemology , gene
MS, the reference technology for proteomics, routinely produces large numbers of protein lists whose fast comparison would prove very useful. Unfortunately, most softwares only allow comparisons of two to three lists at once. We introduce here nwCompare, a simple tool for n ‐way comparison of several protein lists without any query language, and exemplify its use with differential and shared cancer cell proteomes. As the software compares character strings, it can be applied to any type of data mining, such as genomic or metabolomic datalists.