Re: [spctools-discuss] Question on setting modifications for searching

2014-02-15 Thread Konstantinos Vougas
Thank you very much. This was really enlightening! On Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:41:59 AM UTC+2, Jimmy Eng wrote: > > This question comes up semi-regularly; here's the explanation obtained > from the author of X!Tandem many years ago: > > > http://tools.proteomecenter.org/wiki/index.php?tit

Re: [spctools-discuss] Question on setting modifications for searching

2014-02-15 Thread Jimmy Eng
This question comes up semi-regularly; here's the explanation obtained from the author of X!Tandem many years ago: http://tools.proteomecenter.org/wiki/index.php?title=TPP:X!Tandem_and_the_TPP#X.21Tandem_default_modifications On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Konstantinos Vougas wrote: > Hello,

[spctools-discuss] Question on setting modifications for searching

2014-02-15 Thread Konstantinos Vougas
Hello, I have set the following modifications for an X!Tandem search in TPP: 57.021464@C 15.994915@M 15.994915@P You can specify a variable modification only when present in a motif. For instance, 0.998@N!{P}[ST] is a deamidation modification on N only if it is present in an N[any but P][