Will,
I think what you need to do is, for both the "...RowA.sky" and "...RowB.sky" you need to go to:
Edit > Manage Results > Minimize
and check the box that says "Discard unused chromatograms" and then push either the "Minimize in Place" or "Minimize and Save As" buttons.
Then, if you try to merge the documents that have had the unused chromatograms discarded, you will not have the problem that molecules suddenly get chromatograms that they aren't supposed to have.
You actually have to do one more thing with that "...RowB.sky" file. When you go to "Edit > Manage Results > Minimize", you will actually see that "<Unmatched files>" is listed as one of the replicates, and "discard unused chromatograms" is not going to fix this. To fix that, what you need to do is "File > Import > Results" and extract chromatograms from some other file (any file, doesn't matter what). Then, go to "Edit > Manage Results" and remove that newly imported replicate.
After you have done that to RowB.sky, then, when you import the minimized RowB into the minimized RowA, only the molecules which you expect to have chromatograms will have chromatograms.
-- Nick |
Nick, thanks so much! This worked! I wasn't aware that without removing the 'remnant' raw data from the files via discarding the unused chromatograms, it would automatically extract something. Makes sense. By using your instructions above, i was able to merge the files and then build one iRT library containing all analytes. Very good! Now to do this for the other couple hundred runs :)
As always, much appreciate the help of this team.
Cheers
Will |