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A method for clustering billions of unidentified tandem mass spectra from shotgun proteomics experiments offers new ways of storing, organizing and analyzing proteomics data, with potential benefits to the entire proteomics community.

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Figure 1: Interacting with a spectral archive.

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Lam, H. Spectral archives: a vision for future proteomics data repositories. Nat Methods 8, 546–548 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1633

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