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This work was supported by grants R35 GM126914 (to L.M.S.) and P41 GM108569 (to N.L.K.) from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences, R21 LM013097 (to P.M.T.) from the National Library of Medicine, and the Sherman Fairchild Foundation (to N.L.K.).

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Y.O.T. is an employee of Spectroswiss. R.T.F., N.L.K. and R.D.L. declare a competing interest in the development and commercialization of proteoform search and management software. All other authors declare no competing interests.

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Supplementary Figure 1 Examples of proteoform level assignments.

Different examples of proteoform identifications and the corresponding assigned level number in red.

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Smith, L.M., Thomas, P.M., Shortreed, M.R. et al. A five-level classification system for proteoform identifications. Nat Methods 16, 939–940 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-019-0573-x

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