Open Source Linux Data Analytics Tools

DSF is a high-throughput platform of TSA assay to screen various conditions that affect protein stability. To facilitate TSA data analysis, we developed an automatic tool "TSA-CRAFT". TSA-CRAFT was developed by integrating PERL script and Gnuplot. PERL scripts manage the entire workflow and data processing procedures of TSA data analysis. On the other hand, Gnuplot takes over the curve fitting and result presentation works. All analysed results are coded in an html file that can be easily displayed by a web browser.

Advances in high-resolution mass spectrometry facilitate the identification of hundreds of metabolites, thousands of proteins and their post-translational modifications. This remarkable progress poses a challenge to data analysis and visualization, requiring methods to reduce dimensionality and represent the data in a compact way. To provide a more holistic view, we recently introduced circular proteome maps (CPMs). However, the CPM construction requires prior data transformation and extensive knowledge of the Perl-based tool, Circos. We present MS-Helios, an easy to use command line tool with multiple built-in data processing functions, allowing non-expert users to construct CPMs or in general terms circular plots with a non-genomic basis. MS-Helios automatically generates data and configuration files to create high quality and publishable circular plots with Circos.

PINCIS.pl (PIcs N-/C-terminal Inferred Substrates perl script) is a small, command line tool to designate and analyze PICS (Schilling et al., Nat. Protocols, 2011) data to gain the prime and non-prime site specificity of proteases. Thus, the script filters given peptide lists for library peptides (generated by the digestion protease in the proteomics workflow rather then the protease of interest) and prints out lists of inferred N- and C-terminal cleavage window extensions which can be concurrently used to generate cleavage specificity visualizations like the iceLogo (https://iomics.ugent.be/icelogoserver/create).