Thanks Eric! That did it.
I would never have found this one.

Damian


On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 2:49:22 PM UTC-4, Eric Deutsch wrote:
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> Maybe you’re seeing this? This Tandem option is on by default:
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> http://www.thegpm.org/tandem/api/pqa.html
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> *From:* [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto:
> [email protected] <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *GATTACA
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:42 AM
> *To:* [email protected] <javascript:>
> *Subject:* [spctools-discuss] X!Tandem/TPP adding modifications not 
> specified
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> This is a weird one: X!Tandem/TPP seems to be inserting n-terminal 
> acetylation modifications to searches without being told to do so.
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> Since updating our pipeline to TPP 4.6.2 we are occasionally seeing 
> n-terminal acetylation (+42@[) in our results. 
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> For instance, the input.xml file contains:
> <note type="input" label="residue, modification mass">57@C</note>
> <note type="input" label="residue, potential modification mass">
> 15.9...@M,80@S,80@T,80@Y</note <javascript:>>
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> Looking at the output of Tandem2XML I see that it detects the 
> modifications shown above, but it also detects +42@[ 
> <terminal_modification terminus="n" massdiff="42.0106" mass="43.0184" 
> protein_terminus="N" variable="Y" symbol="^" /><!--X! Tandem n-terminal AA 
> variable modification-->
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> We never specified the n-terminal modification. The raw X!Tandem XML 
> output does *NOT* indicate that this modification was provided. So where is 
> it coming from?
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> It appears to occur randomly. It has been observed in different samples 
> from different labs. 
> When it does happen, the file sizes for the search results are 
> significantly inflated (ie: file sizes are > 40MB when usually are in the 
> range of 8-10MB). 
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> I've looked at the default_input.xml files used by X!Tandem and the +42@[ 
> isn't given there.
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> Any suggestions?
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> Thanks
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