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Philosopher: a versatile toolkit for shotgun proteomics data analysis

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Fig. 1: Philosopher provides easy access to a complete suite of computational proteomics tools.

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The source code for the project can be found at https://philosopher.nesvilab.org under the GNU General Public License version 3, along with documentation and tutorials covering various use cases. The DOI for Philosopher (version 3.2.9) is https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3909842.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the developers of PDV and the TPP tools for discussions and technical assistance, and the growing community of Philosopher users for their feedback and suggestions. This work was supported in part by NIH grants R01-GM-094231 (A.I.N) and U24-CA210967 (A.I.N.).

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  1. Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Felipe da Veiga Leprevost, Sarah E. Haynes, Dmitry M. Avtonomov, Hui-Yin Chang, Avinash K. Shanmugam, Dattatreya Mellacheruvu, Andy T. Kong & Alexey I. Nesvizhskii

  2. Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Avinash K. Shanmugam, Dattatreya Mellacheruvu, Andy T. Kong & Alexey I. Nesvizhskii

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F.d.V.L. and A.I.N conceptualized and designed the project. F.d.V.L. is the main developer and maintainer of the Philosopher toolkit. S.E.H. contributed to writing the code, testing, and documentation. D.M.A., H.-Y.C., A.K.S., D.M. and A.T.K contributed to development and evaluation. F.d.V.L., S.E.H and A.I.N. wrote the paper with input from all authors. A.I.N. supervised the project.

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da Veiga Leprevost, F., Haynes, S.E., Avtonomov, D.M. et al. Philosopher: a versatile toolkit for shotgun proteomics data analysis. Nat Methods 17, 869–870 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-020-0912-y

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