A generalized protein identification method for novel and diverse sequencing technologies.

Protein sequencing is a rapidly evolving field with much progress towards the realization of a new generation of protein sequencers. The early devices, however, may not be able to reliably discriminate all 20 amino acids, resulting in a partial, noisy and possibly error-prone signature of a protein. Rather than achieving sequencing, these devices may aim to identify target proteins by comparing such signatures to databases of known proteins.