Tool to estimate the probability of peptide hits to be incorrectly assigned.
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MascotAdapter (or other ID engines) | ConsensusID |
By default an estimation is performed using the (inverse) Gumbel distribution for incorrectly assigned sequences and a Gaussian distribution for correctly assigned sequences. The probabilities are calculated by using Bayes' law, similar to PeptideProphet. Alternatively, a second Gaussian distribution can be used for incorrectly assigned sequences. At the moment, IDPosteriorErrorProbability is able to handle X!Tandem, Mascot, MyriMatch and OMSSA scores.
No target/decoy information needs to be provided, since the model fits are done on the mixed distribution.
In order to validate the computed probabilities one can adjust the fit_algorithm subsection.
There are three parameters for the plot: The parameter 'output_plots' is by default false. If set to true the plot will be created. The scores are plotted in form of bins. Each bin represents a set of scores in a range of (highest_score - smallest_score)/number_of_bins (if all scores have positive values). The midpoint of the bin is the mean of the scores it represents. Finally, the parameter output_name should be used to give the plot a unique name. Two files are created. One with the binned scores and one with all steps of the estimation. If top_hits_only is set, only the top hits of each PeptideIndentification are used for the estimation process. Additionally, if 'top_hits_only' is set, target_decoy information are available and a False Discovery Rate run was performed before, an additional plot will be plotted with target and decoy bins(output_plot must be true in fit_algorithm subsection). A peptide hit is assumed to be a target if its q-value is smaller than fdr_for_targets_smaller.
Actually, the plots are saved as a gnuplot file. Therefore, to visualize the plots one has to use gnuplot, e.g. gnuplot file_name. This should output a postscript file which contains all steps of the estimation.
The command line parameters of this tool are:
INI file documentation of this tool:
For the parameters of the algorithm section see the algorithms documentation:
fit_algorithm
OpenMS / TOPP release 1.11.1 | Documentation generated on Mon Dec 23 2013 22:47:51 using doxygen 1.8.5 |