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Exercise PMF4

Topic

To investigate how PMF mixtures are reported

Requirements

User access to any Mascot server, including the Matrix Science public web site

Experimental

MALDI-TOF data from a 2D gel spot. Protein(s) are from yeast. Enzyme trypsin, state of cysteine unimportant, mass tolerance 100 ppm. The data file contains a list of MH+ values

Data

Right-click this link: PMF4.txt, and choose Save target as or Save link as

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Questions

  1. What are the effects of database size?
  2. How many components are you confident are present?
  3. Does the search engine report a choice of mixtures? If so, what does this mean?

 

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