MS Annika 2.0 Identifies Cross-Linked Peptides in MS2-MS3-Based Workflows at High Sensitivity and Specificity.

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We previously published MS Annika, a cross-linking search engine which can accurately identify cross-linked peptides in MS2 spectra from a variety of different MS-cleavable cross-linkers. In this publication, we present MS Annika 2.0, an updated version implementing a new search algorithm that, in addition to MS2 level, only supports the processing of data from MS2-MS3-based approaches for the identification of peptides from MS3 spectra, and introduces a novel scoring function for peptides identified across multiple MS stages. Detected cross-links are validated by estimating the false discovery rate (FDR) using a target-decoy approach. We evaluated the MS3-search-capabilities of MS Annika 2.0 on five different datasets covering a variety of experimental approaches and compared it to XlinkX and MaXLinker, two other cross-linking search engines. We show that MS Annika detects up to 4 times more true unique cross-links while simultaneously yielding less false positive hits and therefore a more accurate FDR estimation than the other two search engines. 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