MassHunter does it if you pass 'true', ProteoWizard uses a basic local 
maximum algorithm if you pass 'false'.

-Matt


Ben Collins wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Thanks, this seems to have done the trick. I now have a 14 GB mzXML 
> file instead of 50 GB.
>
> I am interested to know whether the peak picking is being done with 
> MassHunter or Proteowizard in this case?
>
> Many thanks,
> Ben.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Matt Chambers 
> <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi Ben,
>
>     50gb for one file? That's impressive. That could be much improved with
>     compression (which the Agilent MH format also does), but since you
>     need
>     to peak pick the MSn to identify them in most search engines, try this
>     command:
>     msconvert source.d --mzXML --filter "peakPicking true [2,2]"
>     There is a bug in msconvert's Reader_Agilent (actually I think it's in
>     MHDAC; I'm looking into it now with Agilent) that sometimes will
>     always
>     centroid profile data no matter whether it was requested or not.
>     So even
>     though the above command doesn't specify to peak pick the MS1s, it may
>     do so anyway. If that's the case, let me know and I can get you a
>     fixed
>     build with a workaround in place.
>
>     -Matt
>
>
>     Ben Collins wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I have data from an Agilent QTOF (.d) collected in profile mode
>     (both
>     > MS1 and MS2) and I would like to convert to mzXML which I can do
>     with
>     > Trapper or msconvert. The question I have is, is it possible to
>     > perform centroiding only on the MS2 data while leaving the MS1
>     data in
>     > profile mode?
>     >
>     > Unfortunately it's not currently possible to collect MS1 in profile
>     > and MS2 in centroid on this instrument (I have requrested it
>     from the
>     > vendor). The issue is that if both files are in profile mode the
>     files
>     > is pretty unmanageable (up to 50 GB) but I need to keep the MS1 data
>     > in profile to do AMT/label free analysis.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Ben
>     >
>
>

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