Hi Ben,

Just out of curiosity, what tools can handle your "small" 14 GB file?

Regards,

Moshe.

> 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]> 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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