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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jul 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Proteome Res. 2023 May 26;22(7):2246–2255. doi: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00807

Table 3.

Mean Counts of Ion Types in True Matches for Search Results Before and After Rescoringa

unphosphorylated phosphorylated
both rescore only search only both rescore only search only
peptide length 18.2 18.4 21.0 20.7 21.9 28.1
# ions 61.4 63.0 61.7 81.5 89.1 81.5
unannotated 22.0 32.1 30.1 30.3 42.0 36.7
y ions 18.5 14.8 15.0 26.6 26.2 24.2
b ions 8.9 5.9 6.2 11.7 8.0 10.1
a ions 1.7 1.3 0.9 1.3 1.3 0.6
neutral loss 4.3 2.7 3.2 16.4 16.0 13.4
internal 6.9 5.2 6.2 6.5 6.4 5.0
immonium 2.3 2.5 1.8 2.7 3.0 1.9
parent 1.1 1.2 1.6 2.4 2.3 2.9
parent intensity 191.6 204.9 369.1 197.9 199.1 295.1
a

“both” means true positive for both the sequence search and the rescoring, “rescore only” means true positive only after rescoring, and “search only” means true positive only before rescoring.