Course Schedule

2026 UW Course

2026 Frontiers in Proteomics: Advanced Skyline Applications

Monday: 

  • Meet at Foege S. (between Foege South and North) at 9am
  • Welcome and lecture: What do we mean when we say quantitative proteomics?
  • DIA Review and Primer
  • Skyline for Chromatogram based proteomics data review and analysis
  • Hands:On: Practical DIA Acquisition and Basic Data Analysis with Skyline
  • Tutorial: DIA analysis with libraries in Skyline

Tuesday: 

  • Practical DIA measurements
  • How do you know your data is ok?  Intro to system suitability, quantitative QC, and process controls.
  • What is wrong with this data?
  • Viewing the output of other DIA tools in Skyline

Wednesday: 

  • Experiment design, minimizing confounders, block design and randomization. When experiments go wrong. 
  • Case Studies: How would you design this experiment?
  • Octopus Block Randomizer and tutorial
  • Using AI generated Peptide Property Libraries in the analysis of mass spectrometry data
  • Tutorial: Generating fine-tuned libraries

Thursday: 

  • Plasma Proteomics - Review. Challenges and Progress in the field.
  • Case Study in CSF proteomics
  • Analysis of multibatch complex experimental data.
  • Peak Imputation 
  • Tutorial: Advanced workflows involving Skyline

Friday: 

  • Low input, spatial, and single cell proteomics
  • Highly Multiplexed Targeted Proteomics
  • DIA > PRM workflow tutorials
  • Quantitative assay validation
  • Conclusion:  The future of targeted proteomics

The course also includes popular morning “Sky-Jam” sessions led by Brendan MacLean with hands-on Skyline processing.

Note:  As instructors update their content for this course, this agenda may change.