The Proteome Discoverer application has many database management utilities that you can utilize for editing FASTA databases prior to importing into the ProSightPD Database Manager, see the Proteome Discoverer User Guide for more information. However, these databases cannot be directly imported into the ProSightPD Database manager. The following steps describe the process of exporting a FASTA database from Proteome Discoverer for use in the ProSightPD Database Manager as a Top-down database.