[spctools-discuss] Creating / compiling a mzXML file from scratch - C# code available ?

2012-08-08 Thread wlstraube
Hello TPP-Team, I would like to compile a mzXML file from a Thermo raw-file, which has an internal structure that cannot be converted by msconvert. I am able to read out the raw-file and process it, but now want to save it as a mzXML. Therefore, without reinventing the wheel, I would like to

Re: [spctools-discuss] Creating / compiling a mzXML file from scratch - C# code available ?

2012-08-08 Thread Brian Pratt
The best thing would be to just use your new reader code to extend msconvert so that it *does* read your file. Then you can output to anything msconvert already handles. - Brian Pratt On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:40 AM, wlstraube stra...@imp.ac.at wrote: Hello TPP-Team, I would like to compile a

Re: [spctools-discuss] Creating / compiling a mzXML file from scratch - C# code available ?

2012-08-08 Thread wlstraube
Dear Brian, Thank you very much for the quick response. If I get you right, I should take the msconvert source code and implement our code. This sounds logically, but for a first try I would try to keep it simple. I would need only the part which writes down the required parameters. Would

Re: [spctools-discuss] Creating / compiling a mzXML file from scratch - C# code available ?

2012-08-08 Thread Brian Pratt
For simplicity, you would probably want to go with the hacking up the old readw code. But if you have any plans for sharing your work or using it very far into the future then you're better off with ProteoWizard and msconvert since that gets maintained and offers more output formats. Brian On