Hi Henry,

Thanks for your efforts!

It would be useful to already have access to the new SpectraST version to 
handle those MSP files. Is there a daily TPP release available or something?

Thanks,
Wout

On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 9:41:56 PM UTC-7, Henry Lam wrote:
>
> Wout,
>
> I replied your email separately, but let me also repeat here for the 
> benefit of others who might be reading it.
>
> The newer HCD libraries from NIST use a slightly different formats, and 
> SpectraST was not prepared for it. It will be fixed in the next release of 
> TPP, but if you need something sooner, please reply to this email.
>
> Henry
>
> On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 6:19:45 AM UTC+8, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> I've downloaded the human orbitrap HCD library (09-23-2016) from NIST 
>> <http://chemdata.nist.gov/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=peptidew:cdownload> and 
>> I'm trying to use this for spectral library searching with SpectraST. The 
>> library is in the NIST msp format so I'm first trying to convert this to 
>> the SpectraST sptxt/splib format:
>>
>> > spectrast -cNout human_hcd_selected.msp
>>
>> SpectraST runs but doesn't seem to parse the msp file correctly, as I 
>> think it tries to interpret the charge as a modification. This is some of 
>> the stdout output on the command line:
>>
>> Attempting to calculate M/Z with charge = 0! Assume charge = 1.
>> Attempting to calculate M/Z with charge = 0! Assume charge = 1.
>> Attempting to calculate M/Z with charge = 0! Assume charge = 1.
>> ...
>>
>> And this is the stderr output in the spectrast.log file:
>>
>> START: (Mon Mar 12 14:44:42 2018) spectrast -cNout human_hcd_selected.msp 
>> GENERAL: File offset size is 8 bytes. Big library supported.
>> GENERAL: Pointer size is 8 bytes.
>> MSP IMPORT: Importing .msp file "human_hcd_selected.msp".
>> ERROR MSP IMPORT: Peptide ID has unknown modification: 
>> "A.AAAAAAQCRSPR.C". Skipped spectrum  .
>> ERROR MSP IMPORT: Peptide ID has unknown modification: "R.AAAACLDK.A". 
>> Skipped spectrum  .
>> ERROR MSP IMPORT: Peptide ID has unknown modification: "R.AAAACLDK.A". 
>> Skipped spectrum  .
>> ...
>>
>> The spectra that are reported to be skipped indeed don't appear in the 
>> created sptxt file. Furthermore all other spectra that are in the sptxt 
>> file have charge 0:
>>
>> Name: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGAGAGAK/0
>> LibID: 0
>> MW: 1595.8380
>> PrecursorMZ: 1595.8380
>> Status: Normal
>> FullName: R.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGAGAGAK.Q/0 (CID)
>> ...
>>
>> Whereas the original msp file looks like this:
>>
>> Name: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGAGAGAK/2
>> MW: 1597.8526
>> Comment: Single Pep=Tryptic Mods=0 Fullname=R.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGAGAGAK.Q 
>> Charge=2 Parent=798.9263 Se=1(^G1:sc=4.19823e-024) Mz_diff=7.3ppm 
>> Purity=92.1 HCD=38.8276176452637eV Scan=19217 
>> Origfile="W16_P_5_run3.raw.FT.hcd.ch.MGF" Nreps=1/25 
>> Sample="WHIM16_PHOSPHO_RUN3" Protein="sp|P55011|S12A2_HUMAN" 
>> Unassign_all=0.4309 Unassigned=0.1057 max_unassigned_ab=0.40 
>> num_unassigned_peaks=3/20 FTResolution=17500 ms2IsolationWidth=2.00 
>> ms1PrecursorAb=29381934.97 Precursor1MaxAb=42586850.38 
>> PrecursorMonoisoMZ=798.9204 Filter="FTMS + p NSI d Full ms2 [email protected] 
>> [110.00-1650.00]"
>> Num peaks: 585
>> ...
>>
>> So parsing of the msp file doesn't seem to be correct and unfortunately 
>> the only other format in which this spectral library is available is a NIST 
>> binary format.
>>
>> How can I use this spectral library for searching?
>>
>

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