Evaluation of expression by RNA-Seq and number of peptides required to detect an annotated protein by MS in M. pneumoniae. The plot represents the relationship between expression levels (average expression from RNA-Seq data) and number of possible unique tryptic peptides (UTPs) for two sets of studied proteins: detected (blue dots) and not detected (orange dots) by MS. B) Evaluation of thresholds and artefactual signals in MS data. The histogram represents the total number of SEP proteins detected in 116 shotgun MS experiments with 1 UTP, 1 UTP and 1NUTP, or ≥2 UTPs for three categories. Color code: annotated (blue bars), putative new (orange bars), and decoy set (gray bars). C) Number of SEPs detected by increasing the number of experiments. Color code is the same as in panels B. Each line represents the accumulated number of different SEPs detected (Y-axis) when combining 1 to 116 MS datasets (X-axis) from M. pneumoniae. Each line has an associated error that is shaded and represents the standard deviation within combinations of datasets (e.g., x=80 will present the average number of proteins detected taking every combination of datasets in groups of 80 samples). 