Yes, it would be straightforward to implement that.

The interesting thing is that Skyline could calculate the median on a set of values that it would not be able to calculate the mean of. For instance, the median peptide is the one that is at the middle of the list alphabetically. There's some question of what should be done if there are an even number of peptides, since you can't take the average of two peptide sequences. I think we will probably make it so that you can only take the median of values that are numbers.
-- Nick

Hi Nick,

interesting! Another thing that I meant to ask about for quite some time now: how hard would it be to enable simple mathematical calculations between values from different columns in a report, like it is possible in Excel, Perseus etc? For example, to take the Retention Time value and to subtract the Start or the End Time of a peak directly in Skyline?

Roman

Yeah. We know adding a simple expression language for columns is a desirable feature. It's not cheap and it hasn't made it to the top of our list.

Thanks for your feedback, Roman.

--Brendan

It's my pleasure, thank you for considering it!

See you next week at the UGM.