PPIP: An automated software for identification of bioactive endogenous peptides

Endogenous peptides play an important role in multiple biological processes in many species. Liquid chromatography coupled tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) is an important technique for detecting these peptides at a large scale. Herein, we present PPIP, which is a dedicated peptidogenomics software for identifying endogenous peptides based on peptidomics and RNA-Seq data. This software automates the de novo transcript assembly based on RNA-Seq data, construction of a protein reference database based on the de novo assembled transcripts, peptide identification, function analysis and HTML-based report generation. Different function components are integrated using Docker technology. The Docker image of PPIP is available at https://hub.docker.com/r/shawndp/ppip, and the source code under GPL-3 license is available at https://github.com/Shawn-Xu/PPIP. A user manual of PPIP is available at https://shawn-xu.github.io/PPIP.