hi brian, i did not use RAW files but mgf files. hence, i am not very sure what you mean...
the converter execution looked like this: /usr/local/apps/tpp/bin/Mascot2XML /IMSB/results/workflow/188/mascot_createAscFile/125380469701.dat -D/IMSB/data/databases/swissprot_57.7/sp_9606.fasta -E trypsin -Ip cheers, andreas On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Brian Pratt <[email protected]>wrote: > It also depends to some degree on what kind of data it's coverting. For > example, in some cases it has to root through the raw mass spec data files > to recover retention time info that didn't get passed through Mascot. It's > hard to generalize. > > Brian > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Matthew Chambers < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> HI Andreas, >> >> It sounds like it used up all the system memory and started thrashing >> the disk (constantly paging things in and out to the swap file) which >> slows down any operation tremendously. Quite possibly the parser wasn't >> designed for files that big (maybe it's storing something internally >> that's taking up too much space?). >> >> -Matt >> >> >> Andreas Quandt wrote: >> > dear list, >> > >> > i tried to convert a mscot dat file of > 7gb and it took several days. >> > hence, i would like to ask if any of you knows how to speed this up? >> > >> > cheers, >> > andreas >> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
