These results are showing you that iProphet has great discriminating power
even when you restrict the input to only non-low probability PSMs
(filtering with PeptideProphet probability).  The best way to run iProphet
is to give it all the data from PeptideProphet (use a PeptideProphet
minimum probability of 0).

-David

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Ali <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all
>
>
> I am plotting the distribution of the assigned PeptideProphet and iProphet
> probabilities to my search results. I am seeing a rather strange pattern
> shown below. Why am I seeing so many hits with very high confidence
> (probability >0.98) but suddenly after that threshold the number of
> assigned probabilities to the PSMs decrease abruptly? What could be the
> reason for this pattern? One would expect to see all ranges of
> probabilities for PSMs.
>
>
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BeikGpozjkw/WGsygFV83UI/AAAAAAAABAg/DcG6lRxucM4IRclvdadal-eFSaA05sd6QCLcB/s1600/Picture1.png>
>
>
> This figure is the combination of different search engines:
> - Comet (min PepPro=0.5)
> - X! Tandem GPM (min PepPro=0.05)
> - X! Tandem TPP (min PepPro=0.05)
>
> The horizontal axis is between 0.5 and 1.
>
> and I can see the same pattern for the PeptideProphet distribution of each
> one of these search engine results including SpectraST (Except for X!
> Tandem GPM).
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Ali
>
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