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Posted by Richard Jacob (April 28, 2026)

Automate data processing and reporting with coding assistants

With the advent of large language model (LLM) coding assistants developing software and novel reports has never been easier. We now provide a coding skill for LLMs that allows the coding assistant to interact with Mascot Server, automate tasks and generate custom reports. Although LLMs are well known to hallucinate, the coding skill combined with good planning of the experimental analysis will avoid most [...]

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Posted by John Cottrell (November 14, 2015)

Shooting fish in a barrel

We sometimes get asked about searching a sequence database with just one entry, or maybe a small database where the entries are variants of the same protein. Details tend to be sketchy or confidential, so we assume this is usually QA of a recombinant protein, rather than protein identification in the conventional sense. Maybe Mascot Server is just a convenient [...]

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