Hi Mike, Thanks for the clarification. I've sent the folks at ProteoWizard an e-mail. Anything I learn I'll post in the forum.
Best, Adam On Monday, July 30, 2018 at 7:10:23 PM UTC-5, Michael Hoopmann wrote: > > Hi Adam, > Yes, that is the linux compatible driver. Specifically, it works through > Mono. However, I'm not sure if any existing converters have been updated to > make use of it. msconvert is maintained by ProteoWizard, and it might be > best to see if they have a linux version that uses those drivers. I am not > sure what VM we use for our msconvert via linux, but perhaps someone else > on this board knows. > Cheers, > Mike > > On Monday, July 30, 2018 at 12:54:45 PM UTC-7, Adam Rabalski wrote: >> >> Hi Mike, >> >> Do you know if this has changed recently? I see that Thermo has a >> RawFileReader that they say is compatible with linux now >> http://planetorbitrap.com/rawfilereader#.W19raqdKi71 Is this the linux >> compatible driver you speak of? Is there a msconvert version that can take >> the vendor library from thermo and convert raw -> mzML in linux? Or is this >> still only possible through mono or a windows vm? How does your group at >> ISB handle this and which VM setup do you recommend? >> >> Best, >> >> Adam >> >> On Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 11:06:48 AM UTC-5, Michael Hoopmann wrote: >>> >>> No, there isn't a native tool for Linux that reads vendor formats. >>> Unfortunately, vendor formats are proprietary and requires the vendor >>> drivers to access those files and convert them. All of those drivers are >>> Windows only, as the vendors have decided that is their platform of choice. >>> Thermo will eventually release a Linux compatible driver set for Mono, >>> maybe you can even get your hands on the development version - but it will >>> only read the file. Converting it to another format will require additional >>> coding or interfacing with ProteoWizard. >>> >>> One possible solution would be to create a Windows virtual machine for >>> converting vendor formats. It can be fired up inside Linux, then convert >>> the vendor files to mzML using msconvert from ProteoWizard, copy the mzML >>> files back to your Linux filesystem, and wind down the VM. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mike >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spctools-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
