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. 2001 Feb;11(2):290–299. doi: 10.1101/gr.154101

Table 1.

Matching Experimental Spectra against a Database of ≈120,000 Yeast Peptides with k = 1 and k = 2 Mutations

No. Peptide Spectral quality, p Rank in bound-and-branch algorithm Rank in spectral alignment





Mutations Modifications Modifications



k = 1 k = 2 k = 1 k = 2 k = 1 k = 2






1 KYNLSDQMDFVK 0.58 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 LSDFLHVSSGSDEK 0.57 1 1 1 1 1 1
3 EVTAALENAAVGLVAGGK 0.56 1 1 1 1 1 1
4 SPPVYSDISR 0.55 1 3 1 >500 3 >500
5 TGLSALMSK 0.50 1 1 1 2 1 1
6 MFHVDVAR 0.50 1 1 1 190 1 >500
7 ATIDILHAK 0.44 1 1 1 1 1 2
8 HEHYLAYK 0.44 1 1 1 230 1 16
9 YVQNLANLATFFR 0.42 1 1 1 1 1 1
10 NQFDFVEGEISK 0.42 1 1 1 1 1 2
11 LDGIYVGIAPLVGK 0.39 1 1 1 1 1 4
12 LGLAPEGSK 0.39 1 1 1 8 7 5
13 LGWSLSFDA 0.39 1 1 1 1 1 3
14 AALQTYLPK 0.39 1 3 1 3 1 1
15 YLPDASSQVK 0.38 1 1 1 3 1 14
16 DTENGGEATFGGIDESK 0.38 1 1 1 1 1 1
17 IDSVSQLQNVAETTK 0.37 1 1 1 1 1 69
18 VLGAEEFPVQGEVVK 0.37 1 1 1 1 1 23
19 DTSHGEITLSAPYK 0.36 1 1 1 1 1 13
20 LEGVYSEIYK 0.35 1 3 2 3 1 1
21 IAYEIELGDGIPK 0.35 1 1 2 1 1 1
22 GAPEIDVLEGETDTK 0.33 1 1 1 1 1 3
23 GDLTSPDDMENAINESK 0.32 1 1 1 4 1 3
24 QDFAEATSEPGLTFAFGK 0.31 1 2 1 1 1 1
25 LFGDLNASNIDDDQR 0.30 1 2 1 5 1 125
26 DVDLIESMKDDIMR 0.29 1 2 1 17 1 20
27 LIPFLEYLATQQTK 0.29 2 13 3 6 7 284
28 LPNSNVNIEFATR 0.27 1 2 2 35 9 14
29 LFKPFLDPVTVSK 0.27 1 14 2 18 8 10
30 SPSALELQVHEIQGK 0.27 1 1 1 1 1 20
31 FYIINAPFGFSTAFR 0.27 1 1 1 1 1 1
32 TAPVSSTAGPQTASTSK 0.26 1 1 1 1 1 1
33 AHNGDLVNAIMSLSK 0.23 2 3 2 1 23 256
34 GSASGDLTFLASDSGEHK 0.22 1 2 1 1 1 124
35 DNQIYAIEKPEVFR 0.21 1 22 1 >500 29 445
36 KPENAETPSQTSQEATQ 0.15 3 >500 8 >500 286 >500

Matching is done by three methods: Mutation-tolerant branch-and-bound algorithm; modification-tolerant branch-and-bound algorithm; and modification-tolerant spectral alignment algorithm. The table shows the ranks of the correct hits in the ranked list of top-scoring hits (rank 1 corresponds to correct peptide identification).