Proteomics Tool Spike-in dataset analyzed on a timsTOF Pro

Label-free proteomics enables the unbiased quantification of thousands of proteins across large sample cohorts. Commonly used mass spectrometry-based proteomic workflows rely on data dependent acquisition (DDA). However, its stochastic selection of peptide features for fragmentation-based identification inevitably results in high rates of missing values, which prohibits the integration of larger cohorts as the number of recurrently detected peptides is a limiting factor. Peptide identity propagation (PIP) can mitigate this challenge, allowing to transfer sequencing information between samples. However, despite the promise of these approaches, current methods remain limited either in sensitivity or reliability and there is a lack of robust and widely applicable software. Here we prepared a tool spike-in data set which can be used to evaluate PIP on timsTOF Pro data.