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Table 4 Validate the confirmed matches by empirical rules (%).

From: A nonparametric model for quality control of database search results in shotgun proteomics

 

Empirical rules

Instrument

FPR

CSL ≥ 4

Ions ≥ 0.2

RSp = 1

Conts ≥ 0.2

iIons ≥ 0.25

nIons ≥ 0.2

LCQ

0.05

92.1

99.5

77.6

86.5

98.0

96.4

 

0.01

94.5

99.8

85.9

86.5

98.6

97.6

LTQ

0.05

91.5

90.5

68.6

93.4

89.9

92.7

 

0.01

96.9

99.8

75.6

95.6

96.7

97.1

LTQ/FT

0.05

99.1

100.0

67.7

98.6

97.0

99.9

 

0.01

99.5

100.0

75.9

99.0

98.0

100.0