Hi Adam,

Yes there is a mode in PTMProphet you can enable called MASSDIFFMODE, it
will localize the mass difference like a PTM.  I have tried this using
MSFragger and tier-wise open mass searching using SpectraST.

-David

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Adam R <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thank you for the prompt response! I will give it a try from the command
> line. I also have a follow-up question to ask to this as I have been
> wondering about other ways to tackle the data.
>
> Gygi's group published a paper in 2015 (http://www.nature.com/nbt/
> journal/v33/n7/abs/nbt.3267.html) about using wide mass tolerance windows
> for searching spectra (+/- 500 Da windows) to identify modifications in
> unassigned spectra. They went on to use the Ascore algorithm to identify
> the sites of modifcation. I'm wondering whether this would be possible to
> perform with the current iteration of TPP? (i.e. wide mass tolerant search
> with comet followed by site analysis by PTM Prophet) PTM Prophet's input
> requires the amino acid and the mass shifts for PTMs but I'm wondering
> whether it could be utilized to identify "un-specified" mods on any amino
> acid.
>
> Best,
>
> Adam
>
> On Monday, September 25, 2017 at 11:47:39 AM UTC-5, David Shteynberg wrote:
>>
>> There are a couple things wrong here.  Primarily there is a bug in
>> current distributed version of PTMProphet that prevents it from being run
>> through the web-interface.  There is already a fix available, however, you
>> will probably want to run this from the command line because of reasons
>> that follow.  Your command needs some adjustment.  As is it will try to
>> localize a different "PTM" on the amino acids you have specified for each
>> set of amino acids, when what you want it to localize on any amino acid.
>> You can try the following in a command terminal
>>
>> cd c:\TPP\data\[YOUR_DATA_DIRECTORY]
>>
>> PTMProphetParser MZTOL=0.2 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXWYZ:639.3169
>> [YOUR_INPUT_PEPXML] [YOUR_OUTPUT_PEPXML]
>>
>>
>> Thank you for reporting the issue.
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 11:19 AM, wicher89 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> I am analyzing peptides from cells that have been treated with a UV
>>> crosslinker attached to a small molecule (ABPP method). This results in
>>> mono-linked peptides. Because the UV cross-linker is not residue specific,
>>> I am forced to search the data in comet with a modification of 639.3118 Da
>>> on any amino acid other than those with fixed modifications. I am able to
>>> process the output files until the iProphet step, but am running into
>>> command failure at PTM Prophet. Is there a maximum limit on the number of
>>> amino acids used at once in a single line entry for a modification? I have
>>> attached screenshots of the parameters used and the command failure output.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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