Dear TPP developers,

I might have uncovered a bug in ProteinProphet, or at least stumbled across a 
result which does not make sense to me. We are using all annotated isoforms 
from Swissprot when we search data from human. This roughly doubles the number 
of human entries from 20k to 40k many which as identical over long stretches. 
It seems I end up with protein groups of high probability but all members have 
a probability of 0. Is this expected:

<protein_group group_number="311" pseudo_name="50" probability="1.0000"> <protein 
protein_name="P05164" n_indistinguishable_proteins="5" probability="0.0000" ...
...
<protein protein_name="P05164_CHAIN_2" n_indistinguishable_proteins="1" 
probability="0.0000" ...
...
<protein protein_name="P05164_CHAIN_3" n_indistinguishable_proteins="1" 
probability="0.0000" ...
...
<protein protein_name="P05164_CHAIN_4" n_indistinguishable_proteins="1" 
probability="0.0000" ...
...
</protein_group>

The result for the same data, same search parameters but with a database not 
containing isoforms I get:

<protein_group group_number="26" probability="1.0000"> <protein protein_name="P05164" 
n_indistinguishable_proteins="1" probability="1.0000" percent_coverage="27.7"
...
</protein_group>

I would greatly appreciate if could tell me if this behavior is expected.

Thanks!

Lars Malmstroem
ETH Zurich
Switzerland

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