Title | | » | Handle Mascot Distiller settings which are problematic for Skyline |
Assigned To | | » | kaipot@u.washington.edu |
Type | | » | Todo |
Area | | » | Skyline |
Priority | | » | 3 |
Milestone | | » | 3.1 |
From David Creasy:
We mentioned two features in Distiller that could cause problems for Skyline:
1. The option to save the Fragment ions in MS/MS peak lists as MH+ values will presumably cause problems for Skyline:
[See image 1 attached]
2. The processing option to use the precursor charge as the maximum charge allowed for fragment ions will cause multiple peak lists to be written out for each ms-ms spectrum:
[See image 2 attached]
This can also be caused by clearing the option for a "Single peak list for multiple precursor charges" above. This shouldn't cause a problem for Skyline, but you will see the same (or nearly the same) spectrum appear multiple times. You can detect this because the same TITLE= line will appear multiple time. The difference in the spectra might be for example where a 3+ fragment is excluded from a spectrum where the pre-cursor is 2+
The value:
_MSMS.UsePrecursorAsMaxCharge = 0
appears near the top of the MGF file.
Unfortunately, the formatting options for "Single peak list for multiple precursor charges" and "Output as MH+" don't currently appear in the mgf file. We've raised a bug report and it should be fixed in the next Distiller version. Sorry about that - we'll let you know as soon as it's fixed.