>> why is it that the TPP comes with a version of X! Tandem that's about three 
>> years older than the current version?

The TPP version is a fork of X!Tandem that allows pluggable scoring
(that feature is courtesy of LabKey Software) and full mzML and
mzXML.gz read capability (via ProteoWizard library), along with a few
other minor edits that have been useful to TPP and LabKey.  Keeping
all that synchronized with the official X!Tandem code gets
complicated.

The code in TPP trunk is up to date with the xtandem code of last
November, so not quite as out of date as the TPP 4.3 branch, but still
not the absolute latest and greatest.  At the moment there's some new
functionality in the official XTandem code that breaks the pluggable
scoring architecture, and nobody has dug into that yet.  It appears to
be around the topic of phosphorylation (no comments in the newly added
code, unfortunately) and it's not clear how that interacts with the
k-score plugin.

AFAIK if you don't care about the pluggable scoring or mzML read
capabilty then you can just drop in your own X!Tandem build.

Brian

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Jesse J <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This question isn't critical, but I'm curious: why is it that the TPP
> comes with a version of X! Tandem that's about three years older than
> the current version?
>

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