OpenKnowledge for peer-to-peer experimentation in protein identification by MS/MS

Table 2 Peer ranking in MS/MS protein identification experiment.

Rank	Peer	Peer ranking score	Total runs	Number of successful runs	Number of failed runs
1	output_interface and spectra_input	0.308	239	110	129
2	MS-BLAST	0.162	130	47	83
3	MASCOT	0.122	68	53	15
4	PepNovo	0.104	61	30	31
5	Lutefisk	0.059	69	17	52
6	OMSSA	0.023	41	10	31

The interaction with seven peers involved in the PFF and de novo approaches was executed 238 times. The ranking of the peers was based on the number of times executed and the numbers of successful and failed interactions.