Data-dependent liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) is widely used in proteomic analyses. A well-performed LC-MS/MS workflow, which involves multiple procedures and interdependent metrics, is a prerequisite for deep proteome profiling. Researchers have previously evaluated LC-MS/MS performance mainly based on the number of identified peptides and proteins. However, this is not a comprehensive approach. This motivates us to develop MSRefine, which aims to evaluate and optimize the performance of the LC-MS/MS workflow for data-dependent acquisition (DDA) proteomics. It extracts 47 kinds of metrics, scores the metrics, and reports visual results, assisting users in evaluating the workflow, locating problems, and providing optimizing strategies. In this study, we compared and analyzed multiple pairs of datasets spanning different samples, methods, and instruments and demonstrated that the comprehensive visual metrics and scores in MSRefine enable us to evaluate the performance of the various experiments and provide optimal strategies for the identification of more peptides and proteins.
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