bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/044552; this version posted March 19, 2016. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Automated SWATH Data Analysis Using Targeted Extraction of Ion Chromatograms Hannes L. Röst1,2, Ruedi Aebersold1,3 and Olga T. Schubert1,4 1 Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland 2 Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA 3 Faculty of Science, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland 4 Department of Human Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Corresponding authors: HR (
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[email protected]) Running head: SWATH Data Analysis 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/044552; this version posted March 19, 2016. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Summary Targeted mass spectrometry comprises a set of methods able to quantify protein analytes in complex mixtures with high accuracy and sensitivity. These methods, e.g., Selected Reaction Monitoring (SRM) and SWATH MS, use specific mass spectrometric coordinates (assays) for reproducible detection and quantification of proteins. In this protocol, we describe how to analyze in a targeted manner data from a SWATH MS experiment aimed at monitoring thousands of proteins reproducibly over many samples.