DTASuperCharge: is now 7 times faster!

Update, 2010-02-06: the new option for preprocessing is broken if "Use charge state from DTA file" in tab "DTA Processing" is turned on. Turn it off (uncheck it).

Otherwise there will be false negative Mascot identifications as some peak lists will not be included.

Update, 2009-12-09: the new option for preprocessing is broken for fragment groups longer than one. E.g. if there are 6 fragment spectra, CID, ETD, CID, ETD, CID and ETD only every second spectrum will be used - leaving out the ETD spectra from contributing to the Mascot MGF file. It has been fixed and the next version will include this fix.

Some unnecessary operations in DTASuperCharge were eliminated and as a consequence a conversion of a raw file is now 7 times faster, from a total runtime of 16 minutes on sample dataset 2 to 2.5 minutes. The download is really for MSQuant - when installed the bundled DTASuperCharge is the new fast one.

DTASuperCharge: v2.0a6. Download (11.8 MB).

• Added:

  Not really a feature, but is 7 times faster.

  New option for preprocessing, eiiminating the need for ExtractMSN. Thus there is no need for a license for BioWorks. BioWorks has also been discontinued; the only way to get the functionality of ExtractMSN is the EUR 20000 ProteomeDiscoverer.

• Changes:

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• Bug fixes:

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Posted by Peter Mortensen on 2009-10-08T15:31:00+0200