I received some data from the MASCOT Search Results, where the Quantitation overview of proteins is shown in the table. And the fields in the table are: Score; mass; matches; Sequences and emPAI.

In my work I am using the values of the Matches field, where I will calculate the p-value of the triplicates and the log. I would like to know from someone with more experience in proteomics data, if I am selecting proteins correctly using the values of the matches field as the abundance of these proteins.

Thank you very much in advance.