For more information, please choose from the list below.

Product brochure & tutorial movies

Find out more with the technical brochure and the tutorial movies.

Product Brochure (PDF) (updated October 2007)

Phenyx Tutorial Movie

Phenyx Daemon Tutorial Movie

FAQ, troubleshooting & manual(s), example files

Frequently Asked Questions concerning Phenyx.

FAQ

Having installation difficulties or other problems with Phenyx? This guide will point you in the right direction.

Troubleshooting

Information about how to get up and running with Phenyx. This documentation is also supplied in print form when Phenyx is purchased.

Phenyx User Manual (updated 8.09.2007)

Phenyx User Manual (PDF) (updated 8.09.2007)

System Requirements (updated 8.02.2006)

These files will let you test the Phenyx results using example data. You can also download pre-compiled databases which can then be used within Phenyx.

Phenyx Example Files

Phenyx Pre-compiled Databases

Selected posters & publications

GeneBio posters:

"Phenyx: Combining High-Throughput and Pertinence in Protein Identification"
Authors: Alexandre Masselot, Pierre-Alain Binz, Lorenzo Cambria, Ron D. Apel.

"Phenyx: Manage Protein Identification with Flexibility and Pertinence"
Authors: Alexandre Masselot, Pierre-Alain Binz, Lorenzo Cambria, Ron D. Apel.

"Phenyx: The innovative software platform for proteomics mass spectrometry data analysis"
Authors: GeneBio staff.

"A quantitation module for Phenyx: An implementation compliant with several labeling techniques and enabling the use of various statistics"
Authors: David Bouyssié, Alexandre Masselot, Roman Mylonas, Pierre-Alain Binz.

"An open-source toolkit for quality assessment and filtering of peptide mass spectra"
Authors: Roman Mylonas; Alexandre Masselot; Pierre-Alain Binz; Ron D. Appel.

"How to choose and define a protein identification strategy adapted to an experimental workflow"
Authors: Pierre-Alain Binz; Nicolas Budin; Anne Niknejad; Olivier Evalet; Alexandre Masselot.

"Phenyx: The proteomics software platform for mass spectrometry data analysis"
Authors: GeneBio staff.

Selected posters:

"swissPIT - The Swiss Protein Identification Toolbox"
Authors: A. Quandt, A. Masselot, C. Hernandez, N. Budin, E. Ahrne, P. Hernandez, P. Palagi, P.A. Binz, and R.D. Appel.

"Two Dimensional Digest (Chemdigest/Trypsin)-LC-MS/MS Strategy Increased the Coverage of Proteins in Human Mitochondria Proteome."
Authors: Chang-hee Lee, Younyoung You, Taehoon Lee, Byung Yong Ahn, Young Min Cho, Kyong Soo Park, Martin Bluggel, Gerhard Korting, Herbert Thiele.

"Automated MS data processing pipeline in the Testis Proteome Pilot Project"
Authors: Régis Lavigne, Djibril Ousmanou, Morgane Couvet, Nathalie Guitton, Katja Schuerer, Jörg Glandorf, Peter Hufnagel, Herbert Thiele, and Charles Pineau.

"Increasing the number of identified peptides with high measured mass accuracy on CID fragments"
Authors: Alexander Scherl, Manhong Wu, Scott Shaffer, Greg Taylor, Alexandre Masselot, Pierre-Alain Binz, Samuel I. Miller and David R. Goodlett.

"Accidental Data Independent Collision Induced Dissociation on the LTQ-FT"
Authors: Shawna M. Hengel, Scott Shaffer, Gregory K. Taylor, Alex Scherl, Alexandre Masselot, Pierre-Alain Binz, David R. Goodlett.

"Differential membrane proteomics of the bacterial predator: Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus."
Authors: Pratik D. Jagtap, Angela K. Waker. John R. Strahler, Eric S. Simon, Maureen T. Kachman, Janine R. Maddock, Philip C. Andrews.

"Comparison of Three Software Packages for Identification of MF 7 Membrane Proteins Extracted with Trifluoroethanol"
Authors: Cédric Pionneau, Ludovic Canele, Jordane Bousquet, Julie Hardouin, Michel Caron and Raymonde Joubert-Caron.

These articles describing the technology behind Phenyx can all be found via PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine:

Manfred Heller, Mingliang Ye, Philippe E. Michel, Patrick Morier, Daniel Stalder, Martin A. Jünger, Ruedi Aebersold, Frédéric Reymond, and Joël S. Rossier. Added Value for Tandem Mass Spectrometry Shotgun Proteomics Data Validation through Isoelectric Focusing of Peptides. J. Proteome Res.; 2005; ASAP Web Release Date: 05-Oct-2005

Colinge J, Cusin I, Reffas S, Mahé E, Niknejad A, Rey PA, Mattou H, Moniatte M, Bougueleret L. "Experiments in searching small proteins in unannotated large eukaryotic genomes." J Proteome Res. 2005 Jan-Feb;4(1):167-74.

Colinge J, Chiappe D, Lagache S, Moniatte M, Bougueleret L. "Differential Proteomics via probabilistic peptide identification scores." Anal Chem. 2005 Jan 15;77(2): 596-606.

Colinge J, Masselot A, Cusin I, Mahé E, Niknejad A, Argoud-Puy G, Reffas S, Bederr N, Gleizes A, Rey P-A, Bougueleret L. "High performance peptide identification by tandem mass spectrometry allows reliable automatic data processing in proteomics," Proteomics. 2004 Jul;4(7):1977-84.

Colinge J, Masselot A. "Mass spectrometry has married statistics: uncle is functionality, children are selectivity and sensitivity," DDT: TARGETS, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Suppl.), 2004, pp. 50-55.

Colinge J, Magnin J, Masselot A. A systematic statistical analysis of ion trap tandem mass spectra in view of peptide scoring. In: Proceeding of the Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), R. Page and G. Benson (Eds), Budapest, September 2003, LNBI 2812, Springer, 25-38, 2003.

Colinge J, Masselot A, Giron M, Dessingy T, Magnin J. "OLAV: towards high-throughput tandem mass spectrometry data identification," Proteomics, Vol. 3, No. 8, August 2003, pp. 1454-1463.

Colinge J, Magnin J, Dessingy T, Giron M and Masselot A. Improved peptide charge state assignment. Proteomics, 3:1434-1440, 2003.

Links

A listing of useful links, including equipment manufacturers, tools, and general proteomics resources.

Useful Links