About Aldente

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Aldente is a PMF (Peptide Mass Fingerprint) tool developed by the Proteome Informatics Group at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). The free version of Aldente has been available on the ExPASy server since 2002.

One of the strengths of Aldente is to include a mass spectral realignment method in the scoring process. The so called Hough transform as implemented in Aldente is very robust and performs equally well with crowded or poor spectra, allowing also the validation of the presence of a simple mixture of proteins in a spectrum. Last but not least, the close neighbourhood of and synergies with the Swiss-Prot group enable Aldente to automatically search for post-translationally modified peptides as annotated in Swiss-Prot.

To meet the demands of the life science community, The SIB and GeneBio have developed an enhanced version of Aldente that offers users a variety of increased functionality, including:

	Aldente Enhanced	Aldente Free
Access the most updated version of Aldente
Increased security due to local nature of platform
Access to a job history
Ability to utilize your own databases
Profit from extensive Swiss-Prot-based PTM annotations
Capability to perform batch submissions
Results annotation
Compatibility with all widely available peaklist formats
Multiple export options
Job resubmission

More detailed information about Aldente is available in the Documentation section.

PLEASE NOTE: Aldente's stand alone version runs under Windows 2000 and XP.

Please contact us for license pricing information; we will be happy to work with you to discover how best to meet your needs. For any other specific questions, feel free to complete our request form.

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