Nature Research, Nature Methods, 3(12), p. 258-264, 2015
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3255
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Due to recent improvements in mass spectrometry (MS), there is an increased interest in data independent acquisition (DIA) strategies in which all peptides are systematically fragmented using wide mass isolation windows (“multiplex fragmentation”). DIA-Umpire (http://diaumpire.sourceforge.net/), a comprehensive computational workflow and open-source software for DIA data, detects precursor and fragment chromatographic features and assembles them into pseudo MS/MS spectra. These spectra can be identified using conventional database searching and protein inference tools, allowing sensitive untargeted analysis of DIA data without the need for a spectral library. Quantification is obtained using both precursor and fragment ion intensities. Furthermore, DIA-Umpire enables targeted extraction of quantitative information based on peptides initially identified in only a subset of the samples, resulting in more consistent quantification across multiple samples. We demonstrate the performance of the method using control samples of varying complexity, and publicly available glycoproteomics and affinity purification - mass spectrometry data.