Hi Pete,

Thank you for the summary.  I had a question about the 1% FDR.  Is this
decoy-based or model-based?  I am wondering what protein counts you will
observe when you compare at the 1% decoy-based FDR between running NSP in
both iProphet and ProteinProphet, running NSP only in iProphet and running
NSP only in ProteinProphet?

Thank you,
-David


On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:39 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thanks a lot for your reply.
>
> Your first answer makes a big difference - I had been combining iprophet
> results for a second round which had previously combined multiple search
> engines. By combining the results from different search engines only in the
> second iProphet run, my numbers are now more consistent irrespective of
> order of combination.
>
> Regarding the second point, switching NSP off in protein prophet (after
> running NSP in iProphet) makes quite a big difference to my final protein
> numbers (2632 entries versus 2336 at 1% FDR).
>
> Taking a look at the additional matches, they are all single peptide
> sequence hits - however, from manual inspection of several of these though,
> there are often multiple matches with high peptide prophet scores across
> several different biological replicates, and the spectra look good. Some of
> them do look like single matches though (albeit with good looking spectra).
>
> Given that both are 1% FDR, it's difficult to choose the most appropriate
> method to choose. From what I've said, I think the risk of false negatives
> is greater (running both NSP models) than the risk of false positives
> (running iprophet NSP only) - my thoughts are that it will be better to use
> NSP 'off' in protein prophet, but to consider protein IDs from single
> peptide sequence hits as being less confident.
>
> Thanks again for your help,
> Pete
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:29:06 UTC-7, David Shteynberg wrote:
>>
>> Hello Pete,
>>
>> I think the answer to your first question is it depends on the specifics
>> of your analysis.
>>
>> You can pass iProphet files through iProphet again, since it will just
>> use the PeptideProphet probabilities which are not modified (only reported)
>> by iProphet.  If the iProphet is from a single search engine this should be
>> just fine.  However, if the iProphet file contains results from multiple
>> search engines then you probably don't want to combine it with iProphet
>> again as in this case each spectrum search result comes from the highest
>> scoring search engine, so not all the information will be available for
>> iProphet in the second analysis.  Also, for your large analysis that is
>> currently failing in Petunia you might consider running the tool on the
>> commandline.
>>
>> For your second question, the NSP model can be disabled on the
>> commandline using the NONSP flag.  The ProteinProphet NSP model is
>> implemented differently in iProphet and in ProteinProphet.  Although, in
>> theory applying the models both times could be problematic due to their
>> similarity, in practice the models are different enought that during
>> testing I have not observed deleterious effects from using both the
>> iProphet and the ProteinProphet NSP models. You can try running the tools
>> in different ways and comparing the performance.  Using both NSP models is
>> the current default and you would have to explicitly disable the models
>> when you run each tool.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have 2 questions I'd be grateful if people could help answer:
>>>
>>> 1)
>>> Is it valid to combine multiple iprophet.pep.xml files by passing
>>> through iprophet for a second time? - alternatively, is it valid to combine
>>> a single iprophet.pep.xml file with interact.pep.xml files in iprophet?
>>>
>>> I am trying to combine a lot of different experiments / search engines
>>> results etc, and have been combining in iprophet - but I appear to have
>>> maxed out the number interact.pep.xml files to pass into iprophet. Beyond a
>>> certain number of files (doesn't appear to be file-specific), iProphet
>>> fails. As a workaround, I wondered if I could simply run half of the files
>>> through iProphet, then combine the resulting file with the remaining files
>>> to be run, by running iprophet again prior to running protein prophet. -
>>> Would this be valid?
>>>
>>> 2)
>>> I attended a TPP course last year in which the course notes stated that
>>> NSP should be switched off in iProphet, if NSP model is to be used in
>>> protein prophet.
>>>
>>> I am using petunia (running protein prophet on the iprophet results),
>>> and I cannot see a NSP option in the protein prophet parameters. Does this
>>> mean that NSP is not being used when I run protein prophet? ... (i.e. am I
>>> ok to leave NSP on in iProphet?)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Pete
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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