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We investigate the protein and mineral constituents to better understand the underlying mechanisms that lead to mineralized tissue formation. Specifically, we study the protein\u2013hydroxyapatite interactions that govern the development and homeostasis of teeth and bone in the oral cavity. Characterization would enable improvements in the design of peptides to regenerate mineralized tissues and control attachments such as ligaments and dental plaque. Progress has been limited because no available methods produce robust data for assessing organic\u2013mineral interfaces. We show that tooth enamel pellicle peptides contain subtle sequence similarities that encode hydroxyapatite binding mechanisms by segregating pellicle peptides from control sequences using our previously developed substitution matrix-based peptide comparison protocol with improvements. Sampling diverse matrices, adding biological control sequences, and optimizing matrix refinement algorithms improve discrimination from 0.81 to 0.99 AUC in leave-one-out experiments. Other contemporary methods fail regarding this problem. We find hydroxyapatite interaction sequence patterns by applying the resulting selected refined matrix (\u201cpellitrix\u201d) to cluster the peptides and build subgroup alignments. We identify putative hydroxyapatite maturation domains by application to enamel biomineralization proteins and prioritize putative novel pellicle peptides identified by In-StageTip (iST) mass spectrometry. The sequence comparison protocol outperforms other contemporary options for this small and heterogeneous group and is generalized for application to any group of peptides. 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