Efficiency of Database Search for Identification of Mutated and Modified Proteins via Mass Spectrometry

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Figure 7.
Figure 7.

Success rate of the spectral alignment approach as a function of number of top scores at qualities p = 0.3 and p = 0.5 of the simulated spectra. A match is considered correct if the correct peptide is among t top scoring peptides in the database. The database consists of 10,000 peptides.

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  1. Genome Res. 11: 290-299

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