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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Proteome Res. 2009 Jul 6;8(7):3737–3745. doi: 10.1021/pr801109k

Table 2. Comparison of Percolator and Q-ranker on 17 and 37 feature data sets.

Each entry in the table indicates the number of accepted PSMs for the given algorithm (column) on the given data set at the given specified q value (row). Entries in boldface indicate that this algorithm performed better than the other algorithm for this data set and q value threshold.

17 features 37 features
Data set q value Percolator Q-ranker Percolator Q-ranker
Yeast trypsin 0.01 5917 5885 5983 6072
0.05 6793 6940 6813 7501
0.1 7168 7610 7200 8430

Yeast elastase 0.01 1389 1380 1491 1615
0.05 1806 1851 1958 2140
0.1 2103 2196 2301 2561

Yeast chymotrypsin 0.01 2077 2086 2158 2312
0.05 2576 2620 2680 2844
0.1 2914 2961 3057 3214

Worm trypsin 0.01 5116 5031 5192 5238
0.05 5864 6119 5830 6419
0.1 6169 6730 6146 7128