Thank you Eric, 
Is there any tool out there to check the validity of my fasta?

To Jimmy:
I just tried the tandem search without refinement, the problem is still 
there. 

Thank you all for the reply! 

SunSun 

On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:58:12 PM UTC+8, Eric Deutsch wrote:
>
> I think the key part in your output is this:
>
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> *********
> Warning: One or more sequences appear to contain invalid amino acid codes.
>
> *********
>
> I think this is a warning that we put in to warn that X!Tandem may crash 
> because of your database. You should check your database for validity. 
> Perhaps there are some strange characters in one of the sequences that 
> causes X!Tandem to crash sometimes, but not Comet. We have seen this before.
>
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>
> Eric
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> *From:* [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto:
> [email protected] <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *zeyu sun
> *Sent:* Monday, October 06, 2014 7:45 AM
> *To:* [email protected] <javascript:>
> *Subject:* Re: [spctools-discuss] X!tandem error
>
>  
>
> thank you Jimmy. 
> I will try the search w/o refinement. 
> I will let you know if the problem solved. 
>
> SunSun
>
> On Monday, October 6, 2014 1:13:01 AM UTC+8, Jimmy Eng wrote:
>
> I don't know what the issue is with X!Tandem but just wanted to comment on 
> an unrelated issue which is that you should think twice about using 
> X!Tandem's refinement mode, especially if you are going to push those 
> search results through PeptideProphet or even simple target-decoy FDR.  All 
> proteins that make it to the refinement step (and their corresponding 
> peptides identified before or after refinement) will all have 
> distorted/high statistics.  Here are two publications that discuss this 
> problem:
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19947654
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21288048
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> The simple solution is to not use refinement mode.
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> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:09 AM, zeyu sun <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi, Dear SPC users and developers:
> I'm wondering if anyone have some clue or remedy to the problem I have 
> with the X!tandem search in TPP(v4.7.1):
> I have some Orbitrap Velos data in RAW and converted them to mzXML files 
> by MSconverter (ProteoWizard). 
> I ran the Comet pipeline on them and everything was just fine. 
> However, when I search the same mzXMLs by Tandem, some of those files gave 
> error reports:
> _________________________________________
> X! TANDEM Jackhammer TPP (2013.06.15.1 - LabKey, Insilicos, ISB) 
>
> Loading spectra (mzParser)............................ loaded.
> Spectra matching criteria = 55267
> Pluggable scoring enabled.
> Starting threads . started.
> Computing models:
>     12345678
> *********
> Warning: One or more sequences appear to contain invalid amino acid codes.
>
> *********
>
> 9    sequences modelled = 9 ks
> Model refinement:
>     partial cleavage .......... done.
>     finishing refinement ... done.
> Creating report:
>     initial calculations  ..... done.
>     sorting  ..... done.
>     finding repeats ..... done.
>     evaluating results ..... done.
>     calculating expectations ..... done.
>     writing results ..... done.
>
> command "c:\Inetpub\tpp-bin\tandem 
> c:/Inetpub/wwwroot/ISB/data/xxx.tandem.params" failed: Unknown error
>
> Command FAILED
> RETURN CODE:65280
>  _________________________________________
> Despite this error message, the .tandem files were generated, 
> When I use the command tandem2XML to convert the .tandem files to 
> .pep.xml, as expected, it didn't work out:
> Operation not permitted
> Command FAILED
>  RETURN CODE:256
>
> It only happens in few mzXML files, not all of them. And Comet runs OK on 
> all files, so I guess the mzXMLs should be fine. 
> I further checked .tandem files, looks like they contain all necessary 
> parts of Xtandem search results, and all spectra-peptide matches were 
> listed there with scores. I just don't know why such files still gave error 
> message and cannot go through tandem2XML. 
> Please help! 
> Thank you very much!
>
> SunSun
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