Yeah, I'd like to see the isolation window from the triggering survey 
scan because it seems unlikely that the monoisotopic m/z would be less 
accurate than the filter's isolation m/z (except it might pick the a+1 
peak, but that's almost certainly still better than the isolation m/z).

-Matt


Jimmy Eng wrote:
> That 742.5391 precursor mass is the monoisotopic m/z mass recorded in
> the scan header of the raw file itself.  readw just grabs this value,
> if present, via the thermo interface.  No way to turn this off in
> readw (besides a relatively simple edit of the code and rebuilding the
> binary).
>
> Without seeing the data, it's impossible to confirm (or not) that the
> 742.5391 is actually wrong, especially compared to the filter line
> mass 743.54.  But in a vast majority of the cases, the monoisotopic
> m/z mass, although not optimal, is much more accurate than the 2
> decimal point filter line mass.
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Ronny<[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Hallo,
>>
>> I want to add something to the error described above:
>>
>> The correct precursor mass would be 743.54. A look into the MS/MS
>> spectrum of 744.55 reveals also a wrong precursor mass - namely
>> 742.5391. We think it might come from a kind of automatic isotopic
>> clustering. Is this done by readw or by the thermo-libraries? Is it
>> possible to switch this off?
>>
>> We would appriciate very much your help on that, since this incorrect
>> notion of precursor masses in the mzXML leads to wrong results in our
>> software. Writing a workaround on that would be very time consuming.
>>
>> thank you for your help and kind regards,
>> Ronny Herzog
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2:27 pm, Dominik Schwudke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hallo,
>>>
>>> I have problem in the conversion of .raw files to mzXML with readw.exe.
>>> I have observed that in my complex samples wrong precusor masses are
>>> assigned.
>>>
>>> Here one example:
>>>
>>> <scan num="17"
>>> msLevel="2"
>>> peaksCount="20"
>>> polarity="-"
>>> scanType="Full"
>>> filterLine="ITMS - c NSI d Full ms2 [email protected] [50.00-755.00]"
>>> retentionTime="PT173.537S"
>>> lowMz="140.075"
>>> highMz="744.208"
>>> basePeakMz="743.461"
>>> basePeakIntensity="3062.26"
>>> totIonCurrent="5392.25"
>>> collisionEnergy="21" >
>>> <precursorMz precursorIntensity="518823" precursorCharge="1"
>>> activationMethod="PQD" >742.53875732</precursorMz>
>>> <peaks precision="32"
>>> byteOrder="network"
>>> contentType="m/z-int"
>>> compressionType="none"
>>> compressedLen="0"
>>>  
>>> >QwwTJECWpu1DRCzTQI6UNkN9LWhACBJpQ4WhrkF77EZDhiVUQMXt9kOMqdFEmB26Q40pnEQ/DXdDk7vKQN3uzUOUOkRBDZl6Q5q4TkAD2xVD5iz9QXdOq0Pmu5ZBpkQSQ+85U0LTIyND77R7QuHiLUP2vzNAAKBwRCUxu0CKXzZEJV9YQZWfu0Qu4S9AK0qJRDndhEU/ZDpEOg1NQXUN1w==</peaks>
>>> </scan>
>>>
>>> Is somewhere a MS/MS grouping default set? How can I fix this error.
>>>
>>> best
>>> Dominiik

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