Hi Brian,
thanks for your reply. I have just uploaded the mzxml and wiff files
on Insilico's ftp server; filename: wiff_mzxml_comparison_complete-
upload.zip.
1214-CCM.mzxml is "as expected" whereas "OS_G2...mzxml" has this zig-
zag characteristic.

Thanks for your help!

Oliver

On Feb 16, 5:12 pm, "Brian Pratt" <[email protected]> wrote:
> InsilicosViewer uses the same parsing library as TPP so if there's a problem
> with interpreting the files it would be common to both systems (or, of
> course, the files themselves may be expressing a converter issue).
>
> Perhaps you could zip up an example (input and output) and FTP 
> toftp://insilicos.serveftp.net/pub?
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
>
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:31 AM
> To: spctools-discuss
> Subject: [spctools-discuss] Problems with mzXML files/ASAPratio
>
> Dear spctools community,
>
> I would like to ask for some help with a strange phenomena that I
> observe in some mzxml files. We acquire our LC-MS/MS data from an ABI
> QSTAR. The wiff files are converted into the mzxml format using
> mzwiff.  Normally the resulting profile of the total ion chromatogram
> (TIC) in the mzxml file corresponds to the wiff file and is depicted
> as a continuous line using Insilicos' mzxml viewer. However, we now
> get wiff files from a different QSTAR in a different facility: Here,
> the TIC of the mzxml file differs from the wiff file and is depicted
> as a zig-zag line rather than a continuous line as is seen for the
> wiff file. These mzxml files still yield a high number of peptide
> identifications in X!Tandem and can be used for quantization with
> XPRESS; ASAPratio however fails on these files.
> In terms of data acquisition, "normal" mzxml files are derived from
> wiff files where each MS1 scan is followed by 3 MS2 scans whereas "zig-
> zag" mzXML files are derived from wiff files where each MS1 scan is
> followed by 4 MS2 scans.
> I have observed this behavior with both mzSTAR and mzwiff for both
> profile and centroid mode. Since this behavior seems to interfere with
> ASAPratio, I would like to ask for some help and guidance.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Oliver
>
>
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"spctools-discuss" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to