Granted, this is a defect - but that's still an unfortunate choice of
characters.  Even with the correction I can imagine this tripping up other
software downstream since the properly escaped XML would no longer match the
FASTA on a literal basis.  I don't suppose your users could be induced to
use { and } or [ and ] or ( and ) instead of < and > ?

Brian

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Simon Michnowicz <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Group,
>
> I would like to flag a possible bug in a TPP tool.(Sorry in advance if this
> is the wrong forum to report bugs).
>
> One of our users has reported issues with a tpp pepXML tool (he was using
> Mascot so I assume he was using Mascot2XML.exe).
>
> Our  FASTA database has protein entries with special characters in then,
> i.e.
>
> *IFN-<alpha>2*
>
> *&*
>
> *V<beta>14 *
>
> This generated a pepXML file that was not valid xml, as the tags were not
> escaped properly.
>
>
>
> *<alternative_protein protein="tr|Q9UMA4|IFN-<alpha>2" num_tol_term="2"
> peptide_prev_aa="-" peptide_next_aa="S"/>*
>
>
>
> regards
>
>
>
> Simon Michnowicz
> Duty Programmer
> Australian Proteomics Computation Facility
> Ludwig Institute For Cancer Research
> Royal Melbourne Hospital,
> Victoria
> Tel: (+61 3) 9341 3155
> Fax: (+61 3) 9341 3104
>
> >
>

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