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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 8.
Published in final edited form as: Proteomics. 2009 Mar;9(5):1220–1229. doi: 10.1002/pmic.200800473

Table 3.

The maximum number of peptides identified by a single search engine at FDR < 1% compared with

ID Threshold Maximum
Peptides
identified by
single search
engine
Maximum
search
engine
Combined
search
Percent
improvement
PAe000066 1% 5405 Omssa 5794 7.2
PAe000077 1% 2636 Omssa 3016 14.4
PAe000093 1% 5924 Omssa 6914 16.7
PAe000098 1% 184 Mascot 271 47.3
PAe000138 1% 1915 Omssa 2628 37.2
PAe000146 1% 18710 Omssa 20776 11.0
PAe000157 1% 648 Omssa 866 33.6
PAe000158 1% 11503 Omssa 17091 48.6
PAe000160 1% 7687 Tandem 11987 55.9
PAe000162 1% 1638 Omssa 2757 68.3
PAe000165 1% 22151 Omssa 27904 26.0
PAe000166 1% 7091 Tandem 9007 27.0
PAe000167 1% 1194 Tandem 1939 62.4
PAe000292 1% 570 Omssa 822 44.2
Mean
improvement
35.7