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FidoAdapter

Runs the protein inference engine Fido.

pot. predecessor tools → FidoAdapter → pot. successor tools
PeptideIndexer ProteinQuantifier
(via protein_groups parameter)
IDPosteriorErrorProbability
(with prob_correct option)
IDScoreSwitcher

This tool wraps the protein inference algorithm Fido (http://noble.gs.washington.edu/proj/fido/). Fido uses a Bayesian probabilistic model to group and score proteins based on peptide-spectrum matches. It was published in:

Serang et al.: Efficient marginalization to compute protein posterior probabilities from shotgun mass spectrometry data (J. Proteome Res., 2010).

By default, this adapter runs the Fido variant with parameter estimation (FidoChooseParameters), as recommended by the authors of Fido. However, it is also possible to run "pure" Fido by setting the prob:protein, prob:peptide and prob:spurious parameters, if appropriate values are known (e.g. from a previous Fido run). Other parameters, except for log2_states, are not applicable in this case.

Depending on the separate_runs setting, data from input files containing multiple protein identification runs (e.g. several replicates or different search engines) will be merged (default) or annotated separately.

Input format:

Care has to be taken to provide suitable input data for this adapter. In the peptide/protein identification results (e.g. coming from a database search engine), the proteins have to be annotated with target/decoy meta data. To achieve this, run PeptideIndexer .
In addition, the scores for peptide hits in the input data have to be posterior probabilities - as produced e.g. by PeptideProphet in the TPP or by IDPosteriorErrorProbability (with the prob_correct option switched on) in OpenMS. If scores are found to be posterior error probabilities (PEPs, lower is better), they are converted to posterior probabilities (higher is better) using "1 - PEP".
If the posterior (error) probabilities are stored in user parameters ("UserParam") in the idXML instead of in the score fields, IDScoreSwitcher can be used to rewrite the scores. (This may be the case e.g. if FalseDiscoveryRate and IDFilter were applied for FDR filtering prior to protein inference.)

Output format:

The output of this tool is an augmented version of the input: The protein groups and accompanying posterior probabilities inferred by Fido are stored as "indistinguishable protein groups", attached to the protein identification run(s) of the input data. Also attached are meta values recording the Fido parameters (Fido_prob_protein, Fido_prob_peptide, Fido_prob_spurious).
The result can be passed to ProteinQuantifier via its protein_groups parameter, to have the protein grouping taken into account during quantification.
Note that if the input contains multiple identification runs and separate_runs is not set (the default), the identification data from all runs will be pooled for the Fido analysis and the result will only contain one (merged) identification run. This is the desired behavior if the protein grouping should be used by ProteinQuantifier. When the greedy_group_resolution flag is set, "peptide to indistinguishable proteins" mappings will be unique in the output and the actual resolved groups are added as "protein groups", attached to the protein identification run(s) of the input data (in addition to the "indistinguishable protein groups").

Note
Currently mzIdentML (mzid) is not directly supported as an input/output format of this tool. Convert mzid files to/from idXML using IDFileConverter if necessary.

The command line parameters of this tool are:

FidoAdapter -- Runs the protein inference engine Fido.
Full documentation: http://www.openms.de/doxygen/release/3.0.0/html/TOPP_FidoAdapter.html
Version: 3.0.0 Jul 14 2023, 11:57:33, Revision: be787e9
To cite OpenMS:
 + Rost HL, Sachsenberg T, Aiche S, Bielow C et al.. OpenMS: a flexible open-source software platform for 
   mass spectrometry data analysis. Nat Meth. 2016; 13, 9: 741-748. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3959.

Usage:
  FidoAdapter <options>

Options (mandatory options marked with '*'):
  -in <file>*                 Input: identification results (valid formats: 'idXML')
  -out <file>*                Output: identification results with scored/grouped proteins (valid formats: 
                              'idXML')
  -fido_executable <path>*    The Fido executable. Provide a full or relative path, or make sure it can be 
                              found in your PATH environment.
  -fidocp_executable <path>*  The FidoChooseParameters executable. Provide a full or relative path, or make 
                              sure it can be found in your PATH environment.
  -separate_runs              Process multiple protein identification runs in the input separately, don't 
                              merge them. Merging results in loss of descriptive information of the single 
                              protein identification runs.
  -greedy_group_resolution    Post-process Fido output with greedy resolution of shared peptides based on 
                              the protein probabilities. Also adds the resolved ambiguity groups to output.
  -no_cleanup                 Omit clean-up of peptide sequences (removal of non-letter characters, replaceme
                              nt of I with L)
  -all_PSMs                   Consider all PSMs of each peptide, instead of only the best one
  -group_level                Perform inference on protein group level (instead of individual protein level).
                               This will lead to higher probabilities for (bigger) protein groups.
  -log2_states <number>       Binary logarithm of the max. number of connected states in a subgraph. For a 
                              value N, subgraphs that are bigger than 2^N will be split up, sacrificing accur
                              acy for runtime. '0' uses the default (18). (default: '0') (min: '0')

Probability values for running Fido directly, i.e. without parameter estimation (in which case other settings
, except 'log2_states', are ignored):
  -prob:protein <value>       Protein prior probability ('gamma' parameter) (default: '0.0') (min: '0.0')
  -prob:peptide <value>       Peptide emission probability ('alpha' parameter) (default: '0.0') (min: '0.0')
  -prob:spurious <value>      Spurious peptide identification probability ('beta' parameter) (default: '0.0')
                               (min: '0.0')

                              
Common TOPP options:
  -ini <file>                 Use the given TOPP INI file
  -threads <n>                Sets the number of threads allowed to be used by the TOPP tool (default: '1')
  -write_ini <file>           Writes the default configuration file
  --help                      Shows options
  --helphelp                  Shows all options (including advanced)

INI file documentation of this tool:

Legend:
required parameter
advanced parameter
+FidoAdapterRuns the protein inference engine Fido.
version3.0.0 Version of the tool that generated this parameters file.
++1Instance '1' section for 'FidoAdapter'
in Input: identification resultsinput file*.idXML
out Output: identification results with scored/grouped proteinsoutput file*.idXML
fido_executableFido The Fido executable. Provide a full or relative path, or make sure it can be found in your PATH environment.input file
fidocp_executableFidoChooseParameters The FidoChooseParameters executable. Provide a full or relative path, or make sure it can be found in your PATH environment.input file
separate_runsfalse Process multiple protein identification runs in the input separately, don't merge them. Merging results in loss of descriptive information of the single protein identification runs.true, false
keep_zero_groupfalse Keep the group of proteins with estimated probability of zero, which is otherwise removed (it may be very large)true, false
greedy_group_resolutionfalse Post-process Fido output with greedy resolution of shared peptides based on the protein probabilities. Also adds the resolved ambiguity groups to output.true, false
no_cleanupfalse Omit clean-up of peptide sequences (removal of non-letter characters, replacement of I with L)true, false
all_PSMsfalse Consider all PSMs of each peptide, instead of only the best onetrue, false
group_levelfalse Perform inference on protein group level (instead of individual protein level). This will lead to higher probabilities for (bigger) protein groups.true, false
accuracybest Accuracy level of start parameters. There is a trade-off between accuracy and runtime.best, relaxed, sloppy
log2_states0 Binary logarithm of the max. number of connected states in a subgraph. For a value N, subgraphs that are bigger than 2^N will be split up, sacrificing accuracy for runtime. '0' uses the default (18).0:∞
log2_states_precalc0 Like 'log2_states', but allows to set a separate limit for the precalculation0:∞
log Name of log file (created only when specified)
debug0 Sets the debug level
threads1 Sets the number of threads allowed to be used by the TOPP tool
no_progressfalse Disables progress logging to command linetrue, false
forcefalse Overrides tool-specific checkstrue, false
testfalse Enables the test mode (needed for internal use only)true, false
+++probProbability values for running Fido directly, i.e. without parameter estimation (in which case other settings, except 'log2_states', are ignored)
protein0.0 Protein prior probability ('gamma' parameter)0.0:∞
peptide0.0 Peptide emission probability ('alpha' parameter)0.0:∞
spurious0.0 Spurious peptide identification probability ('beta' parameter)0.0:∞