Sorry I probably was not clear enough. Number of unique peptides for a
protein are actually number of PSMs, so hypothetically if a protein was
identified based on one peptide that was fragmented 10 times and 8 out of
those 10 ms/ms spectra result in peptide spectrum match , then number of
unique peptides will read 8 however you have identified only one peptide.

I hope someone on the forum can correct me if I am wrong.

Additionally, you said that you filter at p > 0.9, this is not very
informative and not the best way of filtering. Instead you should filter at
a p value that controls for less than 1% FDR.

cheers


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Sandeep <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>   Sorry, I think I did not understand your answer. My concern was- why I
> have more number of unique peptides as compared to TOTAL number of peptides
> in my data after protein prophet grouping and filtering my data to contain
> only groups with probability more than 0.9.
>
> Thanks
>
> Sandeep
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, March 15, 2013 3:41:11 AM UTC-5, kshitiz wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I think the number given under number of unique peptides is actually
>> number of unique PSMs used for the identity of that protein. If you want
>> actual number of unique peptides then you will have to pull the data into
>> an SQL based server and then query it to to count distinct peptides for
>> each protein.
>>
>> cheers.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Sandeep <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have recently started using peptide/proteinprophet. I noticed that in
>>> my data, there are several protein groups for which the number of unique
>>> peptidees is more than the number of total peptides (mostly the total
>>> number of peptides is 0). Is this data reliable? How to explain this.
>>> Thanks in advance for any answers.
>>>
>>> Sandeep
>>>
>>>
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