Hello David, 
thank you for the answer. I have more than 2858 unique proteins, and 10051 
unique peptides. I think that should be enough IDs. The PeptideProphet 
parameters were:

Filter out results below this PeptideProphet probability:0.05
Minimum peptide length considered in the analysis: 6
Force the fitting of the mixture model (bypass automatic mixture model 
checks)
Use decoy hits to pin down the negative distribution. Decoy protein names 
begin with: DECOY
                 Use Non-parametric model (can only be used with decoy 
option)
                 Report decoy hits with a computed probability (based on 
the model learned).

I also tried different combinations, with the two decoy options together or 
not selected, but I alwasy got negative prob. The third parameter I tried 
without it, but I got an error *Command FAILED*
RETURN CODE:65280

Found 33182 Decoys, and 167398 Non-Decoys
Iterations: .........10.........20.....WARNING: Mixture model quality test 
failed for charge (1+).WARNING: Mixture model quality test failed for charge 
(2+).WARNING: Mixture model quality test failed for charge (3+).WARNING: 
Mixture model quality test failed for charge (4+).WARNING: Mixture model 
quality test failed for charge (5+).
model complete after 26 iterations
command completed in 114 sec 
running: "C:/TPP/bin/ProphetModels.pl -i 
/tmp/a08552/Results_SpectraST_Search_3lib/interact.pep.xml -d "DECOY""Analyzing 
/tmp/a08552/Results_SpectraST_Search_3lib/interact.pep.xml ...
Parsing search results 
"c:/TPP/data/Results_SpectraST_Search_3lib/041117_DDA_Rep1 (SpectraST)"...
  => Found 0 hits. (0 decoys, 0 excluded)
  => Total so far: 0 hits. (0 decoys, 0 excluded)
Parsing search results 
"c:/TPP/data/Results_SpectraST_Search_3lib/041117_DDA_Rep4 (SpectraST)"...
  => Found 0 hits. (0 decoys, 0 excluded)
  => Total so far: 0 hits. (0 decoys, 0 excluded)
Parsing search results 
"c:/TPP/data/Results_SpectraST_Search_3lib/041117_DDA_Rep5 (SpectraST)"...
  => Found 0 hits. (0 decoys, 0 excluded)
  => Total so far: 0 hits. (0 decoys, 0 excluded)
command completed in 0 sec 
moving tempfile /tmp/a08552/Results_SpectraST_Search_3lib/interact.pep.xml to 
interact.pep.xml
running: "C:/TPP/cgi-bin/PepXMLViewer.cgi -I 
/tmp/a08552/Results_SpectraST_Search_3lib/interact.pep.xml.a08552"
command "C:/TPP/cgi-bin/PepXMLViewer.cgi -I 
/tmp/a08552/Results_SpectraST_Search_3lib/interact.pep.xml.a08552" failed: 
Unknown error

command "C:/TPP/cgi-bin/PepXMLViewer.cgi -I 
/tmp/a08552/Results_SpectraST_Search_3lib/interact.pep.xml.a08552" exited with 
non-zero exit code: 255
QUIT - the job is incomplete


So in order to avoid that error, I needed to select the third parameter.
Let me know what kind of problem do you think I am having. I just realized, 
that I had DECOYs on my library, but also reverse in the database fasta 
file. Would that be an issue? I will try to fix that and see if it gets 
better.
Thanks abain for your time.
Carolina 

El martes, 13 de junio de 2017, 8:07:12 (UTC-7), David Shteynberg escribió:
>
> Negative probabilities are output as place holders when there aren't 
> enough IDs to estimate a valid mixture model.   When PeptideProphet cannot 
> compute a probability but based on other models thinks the ID is correct it 
> reports it with a negative probability equal to the absolute charge. It 
> would be helpful to know your PeptideProphet parameters to help 
> troubleshoot the failure to report a mixture model probability.
>
> -David
>
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Carolina <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I built a library with decoys with SpectraST, and then, performed the 
>> search of raw files also with SpectraST against that library. The results 
>> were analyzed with peptide prophet but the probabilities are all negative, 
>> from -2 to -7. My intention is to get a FDR on my results, and that 
>> probability can not be right. Would you know what it might be going on? 
>> Thanks, Carolina 
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