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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 10.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Protein Sci. 2016 Nov 1;86:24.8.1–24.8.19. doi: 10.1002/cpps.16

Table 4.

Database searching parameter settings for pFind and Maxquant programs.

pFind Maxquant
Database UniProt human protein database
Mass tolerance 5 ppm 6 ppm
MS/MS tolerance 0.02 Da 50 ppm
Maximum missed cleavages 3
Fixed modification Carbamidomethyl[C]
Variable modification Acetyl[ProteinN-term]
Oxidation[M]
Methyl[K]
Dimethyl[K]
Trimethyl[K]
FDR filter 0.01 peptide
0.01 protein
0.01 PSM
0.01 protein
0.01 site