Dear Skyline Users:

I have just released a patch to Skyline version 2.5 (with the version number 2.5.0.6079). This release includes a first draft of the user interface translated to Chinese (Simplified) and Japanese (if you have appropriate system settings, or you use Tools > Options - Language to set the UI language). There are also versions of the Targeted Method Editing tutorial translated to these languages:

https://skyline.gs.washington.edu/labkey/wiki/home/software/Skyline/page.view?name=tutorial_method_edit_zh
https://skyline.gs.washington.edu/labkey/wiki/home/software/Skyline/page.view?name=tutorial_method_edit_ja

This is a first attempt, and we know that there are a few things that we were not able to translate this round (most notably, the column headers for Skyline reports), but we expect to have these fixed for the Skyline summer release later this year. We are also now working on translating more tutorials, in this continuing effort to make Skyline more accessible to its growing worldwide user community.

Thanks very much to the people who made this possible with the time they put into reviewing and revising the work of the companies that produced these translations.

Chinese - Chaochao Wu, ChenWei Lin, Ping Yan, Tao Liu, Yansheng Liu, Yibo Wu
Japanese - Fumio Matsuda, Itaru Samejima, Katzutak Shimbo, Kiriko Matsuo, Sayaka Shibata, Xiaoshan Yue, Yasushi Ishihama

And the instrument vendors whose funding of the Skyline project made the translation possible:

Agilent, Bruker, Shimadzu, Thermo, Waters

This release also contains the following bug fixes applied to version 2.5:

• Fix Import Results to write temporary files to document directory instead of raw data directory to allow importing from read-only network drives
• Fix for demultiplexing of MSX data with overlapping windows
• Improved library building from MSF files
• Fixed a number of unexpected error cases

Skyline should ask you to update (from 2.5.0.5675) automatically, after you restart twice. If it does not, please follow the advice on this page before posting to the support board for help updating:

https://skyline.gs.washington.edu/labkey/wiki/home/software/Skyline/page.view?name=tip_recover_install

Thanks for using Skyline in your research. I look forward to meeting many of you soon at the Skyline User Group Meeting at ASMS.

Brendan MacLean
Skyline Project Lead