Request of examples of how to use the functions in matching.py (Match between Run)

Dear AlphaPept Team,

I find this toolkit useful when dealing with MS data, thanks.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The wiki page https://mannlabs.github.io/alphapept/matching.html provides many user-friendly usage of different functions. Could you please give more examples, such as the retention time alignment functions in the file matching.py.

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Could you please tell me which format of data I should provide when I want to perform retention time alignment between two or more data results, like the example you give under delayed_normalization() function (https://mannlabs.github.io/alphapept/quantification.html#delayed-normalization-1)? Since sometimes I'd like to do the alignment job based on results of other software like MaxQuant, I think it will be much helpful to show the format of dataframe to input.

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Thanks again for your reply!
: )

[straussmaximilian]

Hi grimace9527,
Thanks for your interest.
Could you tell us a bit more about the use-case?

• For Matching: Do you have access to MS1 features (e.g. from MaxQuant)? As only MS2 identifications will be tricky for alignment

If you have some example files I probably could compile an example notebook..

Hi Dr. Strauss,
Thank you very much for your reply.

I have access to MS1 features from MaxQuant ("combined\txt\allPeptides.txt" in MaxQuant result folder) with messages in these columns: (screenshot from "tables.pdf" of MaxQuant result, a file explaining the information in each columns)

The "Sequence" column of each row does not always contain a value, since not all precursors are fragmented in MS2, and the values present represent search results.

If detailed results are needed, I will upload these files afterwards.
If anything else is also needed, please tell me and I will prepare it.

Thanks again for your kind help! : )