I agree with "static" and "variable" attributes to the
"mod_aminoacid_mass"  suggestion. Can we add an optional "term" attribute
to denote N/C term-

<aminoacid_modification aminoacid="M" term="N-term" massdiff="15.994915"
mass="147.035400" variable="Y" symbol="*"/>


Regards

Amit Kumar Yadav, PhD
Scientist C, Drug Discovery Research Center (DDRC),
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), India
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Jimmy Eng <[email protected]> wrote:

> To address Harald's point, we should simple add something like "static"
> and "variable" attributes to the "mod_aminoacid_mass" elements as below.  I
> think it makes a lot of sense to do something like this especially if we're
> going to be adding other (optional?) attributes such as "source".
>
>    <mod_aminoacid_mass position="6" mass="181.014010" variable="79.966331"
>  source="peff"/>
>    <mod_aminoacid_mass position="10" mass="166.109380" static="57.021494"
> />
>    <mod_aminoacid_mass position="14" mass="176.109380" static="57.021494"
> variable="10.00000" source="param" />
>
> The only issue I see with something like this that n-terminal and
> c-terminal static and variable modifications are handled differently and
> there's no good way to denote the static and variable modifications on
> them.  Back in January on the spctools-dev group, I brought up this issue
> with respect to terminal mods.  They're really no different than amino acid
> modifications but there just needs to be a way to denote the terminal
> positions.  There was objection to change where the proposed change was
> removing the "mod_nterm_mass" attribute from the "modification_info"
> element and encoding the terminal mods the way we do amino acid mods:
>
>    <mod_aminoacid_mass position="n" mass="230.170757" static="229.162932"
> />
>
> Is there an adequate, backwards compatible work-around where terminal
> static and variable modifications can be encapsulated?  To keep things as
> backwards compatible as possible, we can leave the existing
> "mod_nterm_mass" and "mod_cterm_mass" where they are and simply allow
> terminal mods to be represented as above?  If a non-integer "position"
> value is an issue then use "0" to represent the n-term and whatever the
> integer value of peptidelength+1 to represent the c-term?
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Harald Barsnes <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> We use these elements to detect which modifications that are fixed and
>> which that are variable. I don't see how we could extract this information
>> without the aminoacid_modification elements? As this information is not
>> part of the mod_aminoacid_mass elements? Or is there something I'm missing?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Harald
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 9:44:09 PM UTC+2, Eric Deutsch wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone, I have a question about use of some pepXML tags. It’s a bit
>>> technical and mostly for other developers who use the pepXML format.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The issue involves the amino_acid tags at the top of a pepXML file under
>>> search_summary, like this:
>>>
>>> <search_summary">
>>>
>>>   <aminoacid_modification aminoacid="M" massdiff="15.994915"
>>> mass="147.035400" variable="Y" symbol="*"/>
>>>
>>>   <aminoacid_modification aminoacid="S" massdiff="79.966331"
>>> mass="166.998359" variable="Y" symbol="#"/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Comet and some other search engines write out these entries for the
>>> specified search mass mod parameters.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But SpectraST at least does not put these there, in part because it
>>> doesn’t really know what mods will appear in later in the file, because it
>>> depends on the library. And we now have another case where it is awkward to
>>> put them at the top of the file because they’re not an input parameter, but
>>> a result of the reference.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So the question to all is: does anyone use these data elements at the
>>> top for something important? Would it cause any troubles if for some search
>>> results they are not there or are incomplete? As currently for SpectraST?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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