"The decoy-database approach is currently the gold standard for assessing the confidence of identifications in shotgun proteomic experiments. Here we demonstrate that what might appear to be a good result under the decoy-database approach for a given false-discovery rate could be, in fact, the product of overfitting. This problem has been overlooked until now and could lead to obtaining boosted identification numbers whose reliability does not correspond to the expected false-discovery rate. To remedy this, we are introducing a modified version of the method, termed a semi-labeled decoy approach, which enables the statistical determination of an overfitted result."
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Comments: Dr. Pavel Pevzner published some paper with similar idea, if my memory services me correct.
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