Hi Chris,

The centroid option for mzXML output through the Petunia interface should
have been marked as "experimental option".  I don't recommend it.  Instead,
why not give Matt's suggestions a try and let us know how it goes.

Natalie


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I see that the mzML converter in the TPP offers the centroid option in
> the Petunia interface. I assume this also uses Masswolf for
> centroiding? At this point the masswolf centroid is my only real
> option, except for converting the files to pkl, at which point I am
> not sure if I can run them through the TPP, correct me if I am wrong
> here.
>
> Chris
>
> On Jul 16, 10:52 am, Matthew Chambers
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The pwiz non-vendor centroiding currently available to msconvert is a
> > very crude local maximum algorithm. But I have virtually no doubt that
> > even using that crude algorithm would give better results with any
> > centroid-dependent search engine than using the raw profile data.
> > Whether it performs better than the masswolf centroiding... I have done
> > no comparisons so I can't say. Pwiz also has Savitzky-Golay smoothing
> > which is good to apply to spiky profile data before applying
> > local-maximum peak picking, but it's not accessible from msconvert yet.
> > It is accessible from SeeMS, which allows to adjust the SG window size
> > and polynomial order and also the peak picker window size and
> > immediately see the result.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> > Natalie Tasman wrote:
> > > Hi Chris,
> >
> > > Just a reminder that the masswolf centroid mode is experimental, as
> > > noted in the "usage" statement.
> >
> > > Matt, how is PWIZ centroiding?  Can msconvert be used to apply this
> > > signal processing and output a processed mzXML file?
> >
> > > -Natalie
> >
> > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Chris Hughes <[email protected]
> > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > >     Thanks Matt.
> >
> > >     That being said, I have a batch of profile data now that I will
> likely
> > >     use the masswolf centroid option to deal with so I can search it in
> > >     XTandem. Is there any way to batch process using Masswolf with the
> > >     centroiding option? I notice its not part of the TPP.
> >
> > >     Chris
> >
> > >     On Jul 15, 2:46 pm, Matthew Chambers
> > >     <[email protected]
> > >     <mailto:[email protected]>>
> > >     wrote:
> > >     > Hi Chris,,
> >
> > >     > AFAIK, X! Tandem isn't designed to run on profile mode data. If
> > >     you are
> > >     > using the default "total peaks" setting then it will take only
> > >     the 50
> > >     > most intense samples (not peaks, because it assumes every data
> > >     point is
> > >     > a peak). 50 samples are easily consumed by just a few peaks. You
> can
> > >     > increase the total peaks setting, but I expect that would kill
> > >     the score
> > >     > discrimination because it's designed to look at peaks instead of
> > >     > samples. You should continue to acquire centroided MS/MS data or
> at
> > >     > least have some way to centroid it post-acquisition before
> > >     sending it to
> > >     > X! Tandem.
> >
> > >     > -Matt
> >
> > >     > chr12is wrote:
> > >     > > Greetings,
> >
> > >     > > I am encountering an error which I dont remember having
> > >     troubles with
> > >     > > before. I used to acquire my data such that in MS/MS mode it
> > >     would be
> > >     > > centroided, as in older versions of the TPP, filesizes over
> > >     4gb were
> > >     > > problematic. Since I have noticed this isnt a problem anymore
> > >     in the
> > >     > > newer TPP versions, I am using 4.2.1, I have started acquiring
> in
> > >     > > continuum mode again for MS/MS. I have MassLynx 4.1 installed,
> and
> > >     > > have run centroided MS/MS files through the TPP on this
> > >     computer with
> > >     > > no problems.
> >
> > >     > > However, if I take one of my new continuum files, it converts
> in
> > >     > > masswolf with no errors, I am not centroiding in masswolf, or
> > >     using
> > >     > > gzip. When I take it to XTandem it gives me this error:
> >
> > >     > > X! TANDEM 2 (2007.07.01.3)
> >
> > >     > > Loading spectra ...
> > >     > > This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in
> an
> > >     > > unusual way.
> > >     > > Please contact the application's support team for more
> > >     information.
> >
> > >     > > Any ideas whats happening?
> >
>

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