David, I am doing very similar work as Alex where light and heavy labels are on K and the N-terminus of the peptides. In the Tandem parameters file, the modifications are specified according the the API description from Tandem for residue modification mass and allows to search with two different labels on the same residue.
residue, modification mass Lightmod@K, Lightmod@[ residue, potential modification mass Heavymod-Lightmod@K, Heavymod-Lightmod@ [ In my case Lightmod=42.024 and Heavymod=48.028 In ASAPRatio, if I do not specify a modification mass (as you seem to suggest below) for the amino acids it matches up the pairs incorrectly. Rather than finding labeled pairs of peptides differing by 6u, it finds light labeled and *unlabeled* pairs differing by 42u, which doesn't exist. So I specify n and K in the "Change modified residues to" since the N-terminus and K are the only labeled residues and then I specify all four labeled residue masses with their respective monoisotopic masses of 42 & 48 for n and 170.0124 and 170.0125 for K. Then it seems to work. Maybe it works differently with input from another search engine, I don't know. I am guessing the following warning is informational only and doesn't indicate something is wrong: running: "/usr/local/apps/tpp/bin/ASAPRatioPeptideParser 'BH_2-interact.pep.xml' -lnK -b -r0.5 -mn42.024n48.028K170.0124K176.0125" WARNING: Found more than one variable mod on 'K'. Please make sure to specify a heavy mass for this residue. Thanks in advance for any help here. Brian On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:02 PM, David Shteynberg < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > If your tandem search used monoisotopic masses for the variable mods then > you don't really have to specify the masses and it will use the mass in the > file. ASAPRatio allows you to redefine the mass (so you can use average > masses for matching fragments and monoisotopic for quantitation), if the > pep.xml file alread has the monoisotopic masses listed then you can just > specify the labeled amino acids and those will be applied to find the > heavy/light pairs. Let me know if you require further clarification. > > Cheers, > -David > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Quick question, probably directed to David, >> >> I've used ASAPratio by following through a couple of posts, trying to >> figure out how to complete the options on Petunia. It still remains a >> little unclear why or what should be completed in the fields: >> Change labeled residues to >> Specified residue mass 1: >> I work with dimethylated labels (formaldehyde reagent targeting free >> amino groups and its 'heavy' deuterated D2CO form) and understand I should >> add K and n as the "change labeled residues" and add the mass of the heavy >> residues to the "specified residue mass" (n=33.06425 and K=160.15137 for >> the deuterium modified labels). This has so far worked out to me. >> >> My question is why should they be added to both fields? Is this redundant >> or is there any case where one could add a modification to one field and >> not the other? I have added all the modifications (light and heavy labels) >> to the X!Tandem parameters files, including other modifs as alkylated >> cystesines and oxidized M and all the peptides have been correctly >> identified. Judging by the previous posts, this has caused confusion to >> other ASAPratio users in the past. >> >> And a suggestion: it would be very convenient to have a 'zoom' and >> 'unzoom' option when viewing the results on the ASAPratio viewer. >> Sometimes, ASAPratio offers a very narrow window of the integrated peak, >> and I find viewing the axis in a larger window is good to assess how >> specific the XIC looks for a particular precursor along the complete >> chromtographic run. >> >> Thanks TTP people, hope to hearing back from you!!! >> >> Alex >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "spctools-discuss" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/spctools-discuss/-/mJrJOy17rKQJ. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "spctools-discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spctools-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss?hl=en.
