Biological research of Sus scrofa, the domestic pig, is of
immediate relevance for food production sciences, and for developing pig as a model
organism for human biomedical research. Publicly available data repositories play a
fundamental role for all biological sciences, and protein data repositories are in
particular essential for the successful development of new proteomic methods. Cumulative
proteome data repositories, including the PeptideAtlas, provide the means for targeted
proteomics, system wide observations, and cross species observational studies, but pigs
have so far been underrepresented in existing repositories.
We here present a significantly improved build of the Pig PeptideAtlas, which
includes pig proteome data from 25 tissues and three body fluid types mapped to 7139
canonical proteins. The content of the Pig PeptideAtlas reflects actively ongoing research
within the veterinary proteomics domain, and this manuscript demonstrates how the
expression of isoform-unique peptides can be observed across distinct tissues and body
fluids.
The Pig PeptideAtlas is a unique resource for use in animal proteome research,
particularly biomarker discovery and for preliminary design of SRM assays, which are
equally important for progress in research that supports farm animal production and
veterinary health, as for developing pig models with relevance to human health
research.