Secretome of the carcinogenic helminth Spirocerca lupi reveals specific parasite proteins associated with its different life stages

Rojas, A., et al. Secretome of the carcinogenic helminth Spirocerca lupi reveals specific parasite proteins associated with its different life stages 10.1101/793455

We present ProteoClade, a Python toolkit that performs taxa-specific peptide assignment, protein inference, and quantitation for multi-species proteomics experiments. ProteoClade scales to hundreds of millions of protein sequences, requires minimal computational resources, and is open source, multi-platform, and accessible to non-programmers. We demonstrate its utility for processing quantitative proteomic data derived from patient-derived xenografts and its speed and scalability enable a novel de novo proteomic workflow for complex microbiota samples.