Table of Contents

Origins, Technological Development and Applications of Peptidomics.- Brain Tissue Sample Stabilization and Extraction Strategies for Neuropeptidomics.- Isolation of Endogenous Peptides from Cultured Cell Conditioned Media for Mass Spectrometry.- Mass Spectrometric Identification of Endogenous Peptides.- Bioinformatics for Prohormone and Neuropeptide Discovery.- Substrate Capture Assay using Inactive Oligopeptidases to Identify Novel Peptides.- Non-targeted Identification of d-amino Acid-containing Peptides through Enzymatic Screening, Chiral Amino Acid Analysis and LC-MS.- Quantitative Peptidomics: General Considerations.- Quantitative Peptidomics with Isotopic and Isobaric Tags.- Quantitative Peptidomics using Reductive Methylation of Amines.- Metabolic Labeling to Quantify Drosophila neuropeptides and Peptide Hormones.- Data Preprocessing, Visualization and Statistical Analyses of Non-targeted Peptidomics Data from MALDI-MS.- Affinity Purification of Neuropeptide Precursors from Mice Lacking Carboxypeptidase E Activity.- Mass Spectrometry Based Immunopeptidomics for the Discovery of Cancer Neo-antigens.- Milk Peptidomics to Identify Functional Peptides and for Quality Control of Dairy Products.- Neuropeptidomic Analysis of Zebrafish Brain.- Identification, Quantitation, and Imaging of the Crustacean Peptidome.- Identification of Endogenous Neuropeptides in the Nematode C. elegans using Mass Spectrometry.- EndoProteoFASP as a Tool to Unveil the Peptidome-protease Profile: Application to Salivary Diagnostics.- Methodology for Urine Peptidome Analysis Based on Nano-HPLC coupled to Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry.- Identification of Components in Frog Skin Secretions with Therapeutic Potential as Anti-diabetic Agents.- High-Accuracy Mass Spectrometry Based Screening Method for the Discovery of Cysteine Containing Peptides in Animal Venoms and Toxins.- Analysis of the Snake Venom Peptidome.- Identification of Peptides in Spider Venom Using Mass Spectrometry.- Single Cell Peptidomics: Approach for Peptide Identification by N-Terminal Peptide Derivatization.- Peptidomic Identification of Cysteine-Rich Peptides from Plants.- Analysis of Endogenous Peptide Pools of Physcomitrella patens Moss.- The Bright Future of Peptidomics.