Hello,

I am trying to analyse my TMT-labelled MS data using Libra. I have already 
got the *pep.xml* file from comet search and analysed all peptides by 
Libra. Libra has given me two files, one is a new *pep.xml* which contains 
several values for each peptide, and the other is a* prot.xml* file, which 
was output by ProteinProphet.

I hope to generate *a protein quantification matrix*, which 
contains absolute quantitative value for each protein and each TMT-label, 
convenient for my subsequent analysis and visualization in R or Python. 

But I have some problems here:

1) I hoped to use absolute values, for some peptide quantification in my 
reference group is zero, wich may affect my experiment group data. I used 
Normalize against sum of reagent profiles in Libra condition file, is that 
mean I could got the absolute values? Besides in the output *tsv* file from 
prot.xml, I got the ratio instead of a quantitative value, how could I got 
that number?

2) Another question is that maybe two or more protein share the 
same quantification result. I understand MS could not distinguish these 
protein with high sequence similarity, but could I output a report for 
every protein directly by TPP tools?

3) In my Libra output *pep.xml*, there're nearly a half peptide abandoned 
in protein quantification (kept column was set to No or blank). Is this 
normal or bad TMT-label? Furthermore, there're many proteins even without 
the ratio value.

How could I achieve my goal? If Libra could not output directly, which 
tools could I use or how could I calculate by myself? Thanks a lot!

Respectfully,
Jinwang Lu

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