A honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) PeptideAtlas crossing castes and tissues.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Honey bees are a mainstay of agriculture, contributing billions of dollars through their pollination activities. Bees have been a model system for sociality and group behavior for decades but only recently have molecular techniques been brought to study this fascinating and valuable organism. With the release of the first draft of its genome in 2006, proteomics of bees became feasible and over the past five years we have amassed in excess of 5E+6 MS/MS spectra. The lack of a consolidated platform to organize this massive resource hampers our ability, and that of others, to mine the information to its maximum potential.

Results

Here we introduce the Honey Bee PeptideAtlas, a web-based resource for visualizing mass spectrometry data across experiments, providing pro

SUBMITTER: Chan QW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3213019 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature