[Biojava-l] Isoelectric point and molecular weight calculations with BioJava

[Scooter Willis]

We put in some basics regarding modeling amino acid properties in the
core module but really didn't have any pressing use cases to drive the
api beyond calculating the mass of a peptide. We currently have
getMolecularWeight() as a method in AbstractCompound but never added a
getSequenceMolecularWeight() to AbstractSequence. It would be great to
get the attributes/features of amino acids properly modeled in core
and extend when reasonable useful summary methods at higher levels.
You should be able to query mass of a peptide and have it valid for an
amino acid with a PTM which means the amino acid needs to support the
ability to be modified in a flexible manner. I spent the last year+
developing a software suite for peptide detection in MS data for
deuterium exchange where automated PTM detection was important. Would
be great to get some focused attention on the core to make sure we can
model nucleotides and amino acids with a chemistry friendly API.

Thanks

Scooter

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:15 PM, George Waldon <gwaldon at geneinfinity.org> wrote:
> Hello Peter & Andreas
>
> I effectively did some work on these methods, mostly fixing and adding the
> ExPASy algorithm that was kindly provided to me. I think it makes a lot of
> sense to port all physico-chemical property calculations related to amino
> acids and polypeptides to bj3, as suggested by Andreas, and I definitively
> support the effort. We could smoothly deprecate the bj1 package when this is
> done. Let me know how I could help.
>
> Thanks
> George
>
> Quoting Peter Troshin <p.v.troshin at dundee.ac.uk>:
>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> In fact I'd be happy to help with the development of the tools for simple
>> physico-chemical properties calculation for peptides. We could port George’s
>> code (assuming he is happy with this) from BioJava 1.8 but we can also
>> provide a few other methods. A couple of projects in the lab where I work
>> would have benefited from having these calculations readily available.
>>
>> I was thinking about participation in the Google Summer of Code (GoSC)
>> this year as a mentor, and I think this would be an easy project for a
>> student. What do you think about this?
>>
>> Thank you for your prompt reply.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24/02/2011 16:54, Andreas Prlic wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> if you get a copy of biojava 1.8, it is still there. However I would
>>> like to port this to biojava 3 as well.. George do you want to help me
>>> with that, since you are one of the authors of this package? The basic
>>> support for chemistry in BioJava 3 is a bit better... (e.g. Element
>>> class)
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Peter Troshin<p.v.troshin at dundee.ac.uk>
>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've noticed that BioJava up to about version 1.7 had an
>>>> org.biojava.bio.proteomics package, which had methods for isoelectric
>>>> point
>>>> and molecular weight calculations for peptides. I could not find this
>>>> package in the BioJava 3.0.1 API. I’d like to use these methods and
>>>> wonder
>>>> if there are any equivalent methods available in the latest version of
>>>> BioJava?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your help,
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>> Dr Peter Troshin
>>>> Bioinformatics Software Developer
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>>>>
>>>>
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