Re: [proteowizard-developer] Adding "scan type" to msconvert's mgf format

[Matthew C. <mat...@gm...>]

Scan type would be ambiguous: HCD, CID, and ETD are activation or dissociation types. Is this a 
project-specific need or will it be used publicly? I don't know whether changing the title string 
would break any downstream applications that may be depending on the current pwiz MGF TITLE format. 
So if you can get away with just making this change locally that would be best. If it needs to be 
long term, we need to come up with a way for the title string to be user-configured.

-Matt


On 2/28/2011 1:11 PM, Tahmina Baker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on a project that deals with raw files containing data from two
> different types of scans (e.g. HCD and CID).  I need to convert this raw
> file into an mgf file, and then be able to distinguish between the two scan
> types.  Right now, the mgf format produced by msconvert doesn't contain any
> information that would allow me to do this.  Would it be ok to add the "scan
> type" under the "TITLE" line? Something like so:
>
> BEGIN IONS
> TITLE=controllerType=0 controllerNumber=1 scan=2 scanType=CID
> RTINSECONDS=61.4303
> PEPMASS=1157.81 2189.27
> CHARGE=2
> 906.3514404 4.460206985
> 984.8323975 2.703547478
> .
> .
> .
>
>
> Thanks,
> Eva Baker