Confidence Levels (Stars)
Each proteoform in the repository is assigned a confidence level based upon how it has been observed by the community.
| Confidence | Description | 
|---|---|
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            Manually validated by the Consortium. | 
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            Manually validated as part of a publication. | 
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            Automated validation based on a combination of false discovery rate (FDR) based cutoffs and a proteoform characterization metric. | 
| (no image) | Published proteoforms discovered using an automated search. | 



