Results from runs dedicated to peptide detection are formed into a DIA-based chromatogram library. These runs can be searched using either a typical DDA spectrum library-based workflow or a pure DIA workflow using PECAN, or spectrum-centric search methods based on DIA-Umpire 8 or Spectronaut Pulsar. Here, we extrapolate this concept by collecting certain runs where data acquisition is tuned to improve peptide detection rates, while collecting other runs with a focus on quantification accuracy and throughput. The regularity of DIA allows researchers to make peptide detections in one sample and transfer those detections to other samples 16. Typically tens to hundreds of biological samples are processed and analyzed using LC-MS/MS in quantitative proteomics experiments. However, detection sensitivity is inherently limited to that of the DDA data. While this implicitly increases the acquisition time and sample consumption, it becomes possible to detect peptides using the DDA data while making peptide quantitation measurements using the DIA data. Because mapping fragmentation patterns and retention times across instruments and platforms is difficult, many researchers prefer to simultaneously acquire both DDA and DIA data from their samples 14, 15. In addition, the quality of library-based detections is only as strong as the quality of the library itself. While library searching can achieve better sensitivity than PECAN, the approach is limited to detecting only analytes represented in the library. Other tools such as PECAN 13 query DIA data using just peptide sequences and their predicted fragmentation pattern without requiring a spectrum library. Spectrum library search tools for DIA data 9, 10, 11, 12 use fragmentation patterns and relative retention times from previously collected DDA data. In contrast, peptide-centric tools analyze DIA measurements to look for individual peptides across all spectra in a precursor isolation window. Spectrum-centric tools 7, 8 attempt to deconvolve peptide signals from DIA data by time aligning elution peaks for both fragment and precursor ions. The PAcIFIC approach 6 attempts to overcome this difficulty by using multiple gas-phase fractionated injections of the same sample to increase precursor isolation at the cost of both sample and instrument time. These additional peptides produce interfering fragment ions, and database search engines for DDA that rely on a precursor isolation window of at most a few daltons can struggle to detect the signal for a particular peptide from that background interference.
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One trade-off is that to cover the m/z space where the majority of peptides exist, the mass spectrometer must be tuned to produce MS/MS spectra with wide precursor isolation windows that often contain multiple peptides at the same time. This approach produces data analogous to targeted parallel reaction monitoring (PRM), except instead of targeting specific peptides, quantitative data is acquired across a predefined mass to charge ( m/z) range. In current DIA workflows, instrument cycle is structured such that the same MS/MS spectrum window is collected every 1–5 s, enabling quantitative measurements using fragment ions instead of precursor ions. Recently data independent acquisition 3, 4 (DIA), in which the mass spectrometer systematically acquires MS/MS spectra irrespective of whether or not a precursor signal is detected, has emerged as a powerful alternative approach to data dependent acquisition 5 (DDA) for proteomics experiments. Over the past two decades the continued refinement of proteomics methods using liquid chromatography (LC) coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) has enabled a deeper understanding of human biology and disease 1, 2. We find that by exploiting calibrated retention time and fragmentation specificity in chromatogram libraries, EncyclopeDIA can detect 20–25% more peptides from DIA experiments than with data dependent acquisition-based spectrum libraries alone.
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We also present EncyclopeDIA, a software tool for generating and searching chromatogram libraries, and demonstrate the performance of our workflow by quantifying proteins in human and yeast cells. These coordinates calibrate protein databases or spectrum libraries to a specific mass spectrometer and chromatography setup, facilitating DIA-only pipelines and the reuse of global resource libraries. Here, we introduce an experimental workflow that uses this technique to construct chromatogram libraries that capture fragment ion chromatographic peak shape and retention time for every detectable peptide in a proteomics experiment. Data independent acquisition (DIA) mass spectrometry is a powerful technique that is improving the reproducibility and throughput of proteomics studies.