A *Search Result* (aka : ResultSet) is the raw interpretation of a given set of MS/MS spectra given by a search engine or a denovo interpretation process. The content of a *Search Result* is one or many peptides matching to the submitted MSMS spectrum (*PSM*), each peptide being issued from protein sequences. The Search Result also contains additional informations such as search parameters, databank used, etc.

An *Identification Summary“ is a set of identified proteins infered from a subset of the PSM contained in the *Search Result*. The subset of PSM taken into account are the PSM that have been validated a filtering process (exeample: PSM fulfilling some specified criteria such as score greater than a threshold value).