spectrum, total peaks

# spectrum, total peaks ## Syntax The value is a non-zero, positive integer, Nmax. ## Notes If this value is absent or uninterpretable, a default value of 50 is used. If a floating point number is used, rather than an integer, normal C truncation is used for conversion to an integer value. No error messages are generated for out-of-range values. ## Description The MS/MS spectra used in peptide sequence searches are composed of a limited number of mass-to-charge ratio:intensity pairs. Many common mass spectrometer data systems will record large numbers of peaks in a particular spectrum, even though most of these peaks are simply noise. If the total number of mass-to-charge ratio:intensity pairs is a particular spectrum is N, then the condition that a spectrum is considered to have too many ions if the following statement is true: N > Nmax If this condition is met, then the Nmax most intense peaks are used by TANDEM to find the best protein model for the spectrum. see also: spectrum, dynamic range | spectrum, minimum parent m+h spectrum, minimum fragment mz | spectrum, use noise suppression X! TANDEM API description project