Re: [proteowizard-support] error converting WIFF from QTrap 3200

[Chambers, M. <mat...@gm...>]

Fixed in the latest version. Thanks for the report!

-Matt


On 2/27/2019 9:38 PM, Luis M. Sánchez wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I am trying to convert wiff/wiff.scan file pairs generated by an Applied Biosystems (now AB-SCIEX) QTrap 3200.
>
> If I use `msconvert.exe ttt.wiff` I get some processing messages:
>
>     format: mzML
>         m/z: Compression-None, 64-bit
>         intensity: Compression-None, 32-bit
>         rt: Compression-None, 64-bit
>     ByteOrder_LittleEndian
>     indexed="true"
>     outputPath: .
>     extension: .mzML
>     contactFilename:
>     runIndexSet:
>     spectrum list filters:
>     chromatogram list filters:
>     filenames: ttt.wiff
>     processing file: ttt.wiff
>
> But then msconvert.exe exits with two error messages:
>   [Reader_ABI::read] Error opening run 1 in "ttt.wiff":
>   WiffFileImpl::getInstrumentModel()] unknown instrument type: QTrap
>
> If I use `msconvert.exe --ignoreUnknownInstrumentError ttt.wiff` I get the same messages, including the error ones.
>
> I have tried ProteoWizard 3.0 19057 32-bit in Windows 7 32-bit (updated) and the 32-bit and 62-bit versions of ProteoWizard in Windows 10 
> (updated). Always with the same results.
>
> In my computer, msconvert.exe works fine with raw input files from other instruments.
>
> The problematic wiff/wiff.scan file pairs contain shotgun proteomics data, and can be converted by an AB-SCIEX windows utility: 
> AB_SCIEX_MS_Data_Converter_1.3beta. However, AB-SCIEX indicates that its converter can't convert Selected Reaction Monitoring data.
>
> I am doing anything wrong?
>
> Thanks for a great software package and Best Regards
>