As a remark to Erics second point, this paper is enlightening:

The Effect of Using an Inappropriate Protein Database for Proteomic Data
Analysis
Giselle M. Knudsen, Robert J. Chalkley
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0020873

Hannes

On 4 April 2014 16:31, Eric Deutsch <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would just like to second what Hannes says: when using PeptideProphet,
> never suppress the output of any negative results from the search engine
> (X!Tandem or others) no matter how bad. PeptideProphet uses all this
> information to model and discriminate between the correct and incorrect
> identification distributions.
>
> While I'm on the soap box, I'd like to mention another "don't": never
> suppress from your sequence fasta file any sequences that you know or
> strongly suspect are in your sample. If you know you have E coli
> contamination that you don't care about, do not leave out the E coli
> sequences. Do include all the discoverable sequences, let the search engine
> find them, let the prophets model them, and then discard those IDs if you
> don't care about them.
>
> Eric
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hannes Röst
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 1:27 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [spctools-discuss] Can PeptideProphet and iProphet succeed
> with
> few matched decoys?
>
> Dear Vadim
>
> I just checked my xtandem ini files and we have used these parameters
>
>   <note type="input" label="output, results">all</note>^M
>     <note>values = all|valid|stochastic</note>^M
>   <note type="input" label="output, maximum valid expectation
> value">0.1</note>^M
>     <note>value is used in the valid|stochastic setting of output,
> results</note>^M
>
> according to the documentation, this will write out all results without any
> E value filtering. As far as I understand the PeptideProphet algorithm, it
> is necessary to report all results if you want to use PeptideProphet and
> very likely the modelling will not work as expected when you perform any E
> value filtering. I would thus suggest to also set the output, results value
> to "all". I have attached the xml files that I currently use for your
> convenience.
>
> If you are interested in how we created the spectral libraries for the
> OpenSWATH paper, please consult the method section available in the online
> supplementary. There we describe our searches and how we converted the
> X!Tandem searches to SpectraST and then TraML files.
>
> I hope that helps
>
> Hannes
>
>
> On 4 April 2014 01:24, Vadim Patsalo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear Hannes, thank you for your reply.
> >
> > By "filter," I assume you mean the "maximum valid expectation value" in
> > the output and refine settings of X!Tandem?
> > If so, I've performed the following experiment.
> >
> > Evalue 1e-2:    8 decoys / 24280 non-decoys
> > Evalue 1e-1:  105 decoys / 31902 non-decoys
> > Evalue 1e0:   793 decoys / 38363 non-decoys
> > Evalue 1e1:  3197 decoys / 42706 non-decoys Evalue 1e2:  4642 decoys /
> > 44256 non-decoys
> >
> > Thank you for your advice -- I will attempt to build the Pos and Neg
> > distributions using the more liberal cutoffs.
> > My goal is to obtain a SpectraST library to interrogate SWATH datasets,
> > using OpenSWATH, of course!
> >
> > What kind of decoy to non-decoy ratio is satisfactory for FDR modelling,
> > in your experience?
> >
> > Vadim
> >
> > On Apr 3, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Hannes Röst <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Vadim
> >>
> >> This will most likely _not_ work. It would probably be better if you
> >> do not filter before xinteract but give it the full X!Tandem output
> >> and then filter afterwards based on the computed probabilities. This
> >> way you also might increase the total number of retained hits at a
> >> fixed FDR.
> >>
> >> Hannes
> >
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