What is this Project about?

The abstract for this project can be found here.

In short summary there is a recent publication for solving a problem in mass spectrometry. This problem occurs when one tries to determine peptides in a sample of unkown origin. Because it can not be known which database should be used for the determination search, the paper suggests an algorithm to calculate a suitabilty score for a database and a sample.

This would indeed be very handy and therefore should be implemented into OpenMS (https://github.com/OpenMS/OpenMS).
This project aims to do exactly that.

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