Unpopular opinion incoming.
This is the sort of thing that never gets written down anywhere so I figured I’d ask.
Tell me why I’m wrong.
Correction submitted: figure in a compound page looked off
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Mass spec gives you molecular weight, which confirms identity but says nothing about whether the sequence is correct. Two different peptides can share a mass.
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Try the search on the testing database rather than the main search. Different index, catches specimen IDs.
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ngl i had the exact opposite experience but ok
EM EmilReader ·
Been doing this about four years. The vendors that publish batch documents are the ones that hold up. That is basically the whole heuristic and it has not failed me yet.