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| ===== Definition ===== | ===== Definition ===== | ||
| - | Context is a central notion in hEIDI. Basically, it contains identification results grouped in a set of proteins identified by a set of peptides. There are two types of contexts in hEIDI: | + | Context is a central notion in hEIDI. Basically, it contains identification results, i.e. a set of proteins identified by a set of peptides.\\ | 
| - | * Search context: a Mascot identification result - or an identification result from any other identification engine - is encapsulated in a Search context | + | There are two types of contexts in hEIDI: | 
| - | * User context:  | + | * Search context: each identification result from Mascot, or from any other identification engine, is automatically "encapsulated" into one Search context. | 
| + | * User context: it is created by the user in order to gather together several identification results into a User context. In order to have non-redundant sets of proteins for a given context, proteins need to be grouped to build "Protein Groups". | ||
| - | ===== GUI: Browse context ===== | + | ===== Context tree view ===== | 
| - | + | ==== User Context ==== | |
| + | {{:usercontextshierarchy.png |}} | ||
| + | A User context is represented by {{:usercontext.png|}}.\\ | ||
| + | A User context contains either child contexts or identifications but can't have both at the same level.\\ | ||
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| + | There are multiple reasons for grouping several identifcations under the same User context: | ||
| + | * Same biological origin | ||
| + | * Same gel | ||
| + | * Same culture condition | ||
| + | * Same chromatographic column | ||
| + | * ... | ||
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| + | ==== Search Context ==== | ||
| + | {{:searchcontextshierarchy.png |}} | ||
| + | Search context is represented by {{:context.png|}}. | ||
| - | ===== GUI: display context details ===== | ||