I'm running X! TANDEM CYCLONE TPP (2011.12.01.1) in TPP 4.6.2 on Ubuntu 
12.04.2 LTS.

Similarly to the May 17 issue posted by GATTACA, I'm seeing X!Tandem search 
results with a variable Cys modification not specified in my parameter 
files. Specifically, from the xtan.xml:

<aa type="C" at="117" modified="-17.02655" />

This only appears to happen on peptide n-terminal C residues, and it 
doesn't appear on all n-terminal Cysteines. This is identical behavior to 
the "quick pyrolidone" modification for Q:

http://www.thegpm.org/tandem/api/pqp.html

But it's happening on C as well as Q. If I run a search with this parameter 
specified:

        <note type="input" label="protein, quick pyrolidone">no</note>

...then, as expected, I don't get the -17.02655 modification on n-terminal 
Q, and I also don't get it on n-terminal C.

It looks to me like, most likely, the "quick pyrolidone" modification is 
erroneously (?) declaring a variable modification on n-terminal C and Q, 
rather than just Q. Can anyone verify that this is what's going on and 
indicate whether it's intended or not? If it's unintended, might there be a 
workaround other than disabling "quick pyrolidone"?

Thanks,
Damon

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