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In one common application of this strategy, all MS/MS spectra from the entire experiment are searched against a composite target plus decoy protein sequence database. The best peptide match for each spectrum is selected for further analysis. The numbers of matches to decoy peptides are counted and used to estimate the false discovery rate (FDR) resulting from filtering the data using various score thresholds.
