Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry

Our Mission

Unique Algorithmic Technologies

The goal of CCMS is to bring the unique algorithmic technologies to mass-spectrometry and to build a new generation of open access software tools to support both new developments in mass-spectrometry instrumentation and the emerging applications.  In particular, CCMS focuses on emerging approaches that were not even possible in the past and that bridge not only different areas of mass-spectrometry, but also diverse areas like genomics and proteomics.

What We Do

Developing Advanced Computational Methods

Proteomics has entered the stage when the lack of adequate computational tools has become the key bottleneck for many biological applications. Moreover, while recent breakthroughs in MS instrumentation have a potential to solve the biological problems that were beyond the reach of the existing technologies, the computational techniques for many of these new approaches are in their infancy.

CCMS develops advanced computational mass spectrometry methods for the characterization of proteins and peptides that are relevant to human health and disease, specifically ones with great biomedical importance such as antibodies, antibiotics, cancer-specific aberrant proteins, histones, and other therapeutic targets.