Hi Michel,
I am not sure I quite get what you are asking for. Are you talking about all levels: proteins, peptides, precursors and transitions? Or just proteins and peptides, or just proteins?

Also, the color icons are dependent on which replicate you have active. Red in one run may be green in another.

Let's keep talking about exactly what you are trying to achieve and why this might be useful.

--Brendan

Hi Brendan,
 
Please have a look at the attachment which simulate the feature.
 
Best Regards,
Michel

Hi Michel,
Okay, I see what you are suggesting now. It is not sorting actually, but filtering. I can create a TODO issue in the issues list for this, but I can't say exactly when it will make it to the top of our priority list.

One thing you can try that may be useful and provides some support for finding "red dots" is:

- On the Edit menu, click Find
- Click the Show Advanced button, if it is present
- Check the Unintegrated transitions checkbox
- Click the Find All button

This will give you a complete list of transitions without integrated peak areas across all replicates. The "red dots" themselves refer to only one replicate, and change as you change the active replicate, if you have a multi-replicate data set.

Hope this helps. Thanks for sharing your feature request with such a nice mock-up.

--Brendan

I should also mention that when you are not doing method refinement, as described in the Targeted Method Refinement tutorial, you will probably want to have the Settings > Integrate All menu item checked.

When you are working on method refinement, it is useful to know which transitions Skyline felt lacked sufficiently coeluting signal to be included in the peak group. When you are working with an already refined method, we have found that forcing Skyline to integrate all transitions to the boundaries of the most intense peak yields the lowest variance over multiple technical replicates.

Using Integrate All will also get rid of the vast majority of you red dot peak indicators, since they will only appear on transitions where no signal was detected between the integration boundaries.

--Brendan

Hi Brendan,

Now, years later, I am also looking to group the peptides in my Skyline document accoring to their peak quality icon (green, orange, red). I was wondering if this feature was implemented yet?

Kind regards,

Laura

Hi Laura,
A lot has been implemented since 2012. You can find this value in the Document Grid as "Peptide Result" -> "Peptide Peak Found Ratio". I wish I had named these values "Proportion" instead of "Ratio". It hasn't seemed important enough to fix, though.

If you add this value to a Document Grid report, then you can sort by it, and know that the colors are based determined by:

green = 1.0
orange >= 0.5 (but not 1.0)
red < 0.5

So, that would allow the grouping you described. If you wanted to group them into separate documents you could use the document grid to select these ranges and the red X (delete) button in the document grid to get rid of the peptides you want to remove, or Edit > Refine > Accept Peptides to remove all but a specific set of peptides you want to keep in a document.

And you can also use File > Import > Document to merge separated documents in a new order, if what you are really trying to achieve is a new ordering in the Targets view.

Hope this gives you some ideas for how to achieve what your are looking for. Thanks for posting to the Skyline support board.

--Brendan

Hi Brendan,

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot!

Best,

Laura

Hi Brendan,
I see it has been a while since this topic is created but I have a question regarding to it as well. I understand that in the "Document Grid" with the "Peptide Found Ratio" we are able to peak qualities as numeric values corresponding to the colors (green-yellow-red). My question is, is there any way to see the colors in the Document Grid for each of the transitions of the peptides?
Kind regards,
Hande

There are two columns in the Document Grid which hang off of the Transition Result which you can look at to determine whether Skyline is going to put a red or a green dot next to a transition in the Targets tree. Those columns are "Area" and "Coeluting".

The criteria that Skyline uses depends on whether "Settings > Integrate All" is checked.

If "Settings > Integrate All" is checked, then the dot will be green if "Area" is greater than zero; otherwise the dot will be red.
If "Settings > Integrate All" is not checked, then the dot will be green if "Area" is greater than zero and "Coeluting" is true; otherwise, the dot will be red.

I don't think it's possible for "Coeluting" to be true and for the area to be zero, so just looking at the "Coeluting" column will probably be sufficient when "Integrate All" is unchecked.
In Skyline, a coeluting peak is one whose apex is within a quarter of a peak width from the largest peak apex in the peak group. I think there are a few other criteria as well, but the peak apex one is usually the most important.
-- Nick