Efficient analysis and extraction of MS/MS result data from Mascot result files.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mascot is a commonly used protein identification program for MS as well as for tandem MS data. When analyzing huge shotgun proteomics datasets with Mascot's native tools, limits of computing resources are easily reached. Up to now no application has been available as open source that is capable of converting the full content of Mascot result files from the original MIME format into a database-compatible tabular format, allowing direct import into database management systems and efficient handling of huge datasets analyzed by Mascot.

Results

A program called mres2x is presented, which reads Mascot result files, analyzes them and extracts either selected or all information in order to store it in a single file or multiple files in formats which are easier to handle

SUBMITTER: Grosse-Coosmann F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1325259 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature