Comet parameter: fragment_bin_offset
- This parameter controls how each fragment bin of size fragment_bin_tol
is defined in terms of where each bin starts.
- For example, assume a fragment_bin_tol of 1.0. Most intuitively,
the fragment bins would be 0.0 to 1.0, 1.0 to 2.0, 2.0 to 3.0, etc.
This set of bins corresponds to a fragment_bin_offset of 0.0. However,
consider if we set fragment_bin_offset to 0.5; this would cause the
bins to be 0.5 to 1.5, 1.5 to 2.5, 2.5 to 3.5, etc.
- So this fragment_bin_offset gives one a mechanism to define
where each bin starts and is centered.
- For ion trap data with a fragment_bin_tol of 0.36,
it is recommended to set fragment_bin_offset to 0.11. This is based
on a brute force analysis of a yeast dataset.
- For high-res MS/MS data, one might use a fragment_bin_tol of 0.03
and a corresponding fragment_bin_offset of 0.0.
- Allowed values are positive decimal numbers (that must be
less than the fragment_bin_tol value).
Example:
fragment_bin_offset = 0.11
fragment_bin_offset = 0.0