Introduction
	• Proteomics is critical to our understanding of cellular biological processes • Mass Spectrometry (MS) has emerged as a key platform in proteomics for the high-throughput identification of proteins • Sophisticated algorithms, such as Mascot or Sequest, exist for database searching of MS/MS data • Major bottleneck: results must often be manually validated • More robust algorithms are needed before the identification of MS/MS data can be fully automated