Hi Javan,
MSConvert can create MS2 format peak lists from RAW files. MS2 format is 
kind of a file of concatenated DTA files. It is not too hard to convert 
from one to the other. I have probably have a Python script somewhere that 
makes MS2 files from folders of DTA files. I am not sure if I have one that 
goes the other direction.
Cheers,
Phil

see: McDonald, W.H., Tabb, D.L., Sadygov, R.G., MacCoss, M.J., Venable, J., 
Graumann, J., Johnson, J.R., Cociorva, D. and Yates III, J.R., 2004. MS1, 
MS2, and SQT—three unified, compact, and easily parsed file formats for the 
storage of shotgun proteomic spectra and identifications. *Rapid 
Communications in Mass Spectrometry*, *18*(18), pp.2162-2168.

 

On Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 1:42:28 AM UTC-7, Javan Okendo wrote:
>
> Thanks all for your help. I now understand why this can't work. The reason 
> I wanted to use SEQUEST was because the program I wanted to use only takes 
> .DTA file format for spectral clustering and I have looked around there is 
> not software which can give me these .DTA file formats. 
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 3:52 AM Phillip Wilmarth <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Javan,
>> Many (many) years ago Thermo had a command line executable SEQUEST that 
>> BioWorks called to run SEQUEST. Thermo put it inside hidden folders and 
>> there were license key issues. You could not copy the EXE to another 
>> machine and have it run. That scheme may have persisted for some of the 
>> earliest Proteome Discoverer releases.
>>
>> I do not think that there is still a SEQUEST.EXE associated with Proteome 
>> Discoverer. Something made running SEQUEST from the command line break 
>> (ancient memory cells are recalling something more...). Maybe it was a 
>> transition to C# from C++ and command line parsing issues. I never could 
>> get it to work. I gave up trying to run SEQUEST when Comet came out. 
>>
>> You can get a 60-day demo version of Proteome Discoverer from Thermo. I 
>> do not know if you can create things like pepxml files from PD so that you 
>> could post-process the SEQUEST searches with TPP. PD is internally all 
>> SQLite3 relational database tables (something like 80 of them). It is 
>> either not a very good design for the database tables or just really hard 
>> to try and figure out (or both). You can snoop on the SQLite DB with 
>> various tools, but a proper schema description would be helpful. Table 
>> names and field names are not real transparent.
>> Cheers,
>> Phil
>>
>>
>> On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 3:51:50 PM UTC-7, Jimmy Eng wrote:
>>>
>>> Javan,
>>>
>>> You're not going to be able to run SEQUEST through the TPP unless you've 
>>> purchased the software from Thermo and have it installed on the same 
>>> computer that's running the TPP.  It doesn't come with the TPP itself.  And 
>>> support for the SEQUEST pipeline option should probably be removed from the 
>>> UI unless anyone can confirm that it actually still works.
>>>
>>> On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 1:56:45 PM UTC-7, JAVAN OKENDO wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am getting the above mentioned error when running SEQUEST on TPP. I 
>>>> did install the TPP correctly and when I try to run the program it gives 
>>>> an 
>>>> error. See the screenshot with the error details
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [image: Screenshot from 2020-06-08 22-50-26.png]
>>>>
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