Peptide Mass Fingerprinting

Identifies an unknown protein by digesting it into fragments and matching the resulting pattern of fragment masses against a database of masses predicted for every known protein.

References

• Henzel, W.J., Billeci, T.M., Stults, J.T., et al. "Identifying Proteins." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 90, no. 11 (1993): 5011–5015.