Never got a reply directly back but the post was answered on the sourceforge site:
https://sourceforge.net/p/proteowizard/mailman/message/36379927/ Short answer is no long answer is it would take a rewrite to implement on linux. On Monday, August 20, 2018 at 10:03:37 PM UTC-5, Adam Rabalski wrote: > > Never received a response back from the folks at ProteoWizard. If anyone > else has learned of anything new, please share! > > On Monday, July 30, 2018 at 8:54:34 PM UTC-5, Adam Rabalski wrote: >> >> 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.
