Brendan and Jimmy,
Thanks for the information. Very helpful.
Bill

On Sep 16, 12:36 pm, Jimmy Eng <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bill,
>
> If you're interested in Tandem's E-value , there is an option that
> David added in a long time ago that allows the Tandem's E-value to be
> used in place of the discriminant function.  The xinteract option to
> invoke this is "-OE".  Looks like this adds "EXPECTSCORE" to the
> PeptideProphetParser command line.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Brendan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Bill,
> > I am the one who wrote it several years back.  I derived the fval
> > somewhat by voodoo, using analysis tools I created in CPAS.  It tested
> > quite well, and if anything produces slightly conservative
> > probabilities, where I felt the k-score fval was slightly optimistic
> > in its estimates (but only slightly).  Note that the k-score fval was
> > derived for the scoring function originally published by Keller, et
> > al, before the score was incorporated into X! Tandem, and therefore
> > makes no use of X! Tandem's expect value.
>
> > These fval calculations can be found in <tpproot>/src/Validation/
> > DiscriminateFunction/Tandem (for native scoring) and Comet (for k-
> > score).
>
> > I remember that a peptide length correction (I think sqrt(length)
> > actually) was important in the final native fval.  Because of how
> > aggressively X! Tandem weights the presence of matching ions, a larger
> > peptide is more likely to produce a wider spread between its best and
> > second best score, the key factor in the expectation value.
>
> > Hope that helps.
>
> > --Brendan
>
> > On Sep 15, 2:30 pm, bill <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> If this is not easily available can you direct me to the class/script/
> >> method that creates the xtandem fval?
> >> Thanks,
> >> Bill
>
> >> On Sep 14, 4:16 pm, Bill Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> > Can you please explain how ProteinProphet calculates the fval from the
> >> > xtandem output?
> >> > It doesn't seem to be tracking the xtandem E-value, what else is
> >> > included?
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Bill
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