Thanks @Eric Deutsch <[email protected]> , @Phillip Wilmarth
<[email protected]> and @Jimmy Eng <[email protected]>  I will now do the
spectral search using the Spectrast within the TPP toolsuite

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:11 PM 'Eric Deutsch' via spctools-discuss <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Sounds like an XY Problem here.
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> If it’s spectral clustering you want to do, and within the TPP, perhaps
> consider SpectraST:
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> http://tools.proteomecenter.org/wiki/index.php?title=Software:SpectraST#Spectral_Archive_.28Unidentified_Spectral_Library.29_Building
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> You won’t need to fool around with DTA files and 8-track tapes.
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> Although the examples show mzXML files at the URL above, you should use
> mzML files, of course.
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> Regards,
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> Eric
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> *From:* [email protected] <
> [email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Phillip Wilmarth
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 9, 2020 8:44 AM
> *To:* spctools-discuss <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [spctools-discuss] Re: C:/TPP/bin/runsearch' is not
> recognized as an internal or external command
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
>
> Phil
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> 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.
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> On Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 1:42:28 AM UTC-7, Javan Okendo wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 3:52 AM Phillip Wilmarth <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
>
> Phil
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> On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 3:51:50 PM UTC-7, Jimmy Eng wrote:
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> Javan,
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> 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:
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> 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
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