Re: [Psidev-ms-dev] mzML 0.99.9 SNAPSHOT software::type attribute

[Angel P. <an...@ma...>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Lennart Martens <len...@eb...>
wrote:

> Hi Angel,
>
>
> > I would have thought the ontology entry for XCalibur would have
> > qualified it as acquisition software (e.g. this should have been encoded
> > into the CV element and hence referencing the accession MS:1000532 would
> > suffice to identify it as acquisition software.)
>
> Seems like a very reasonable suggestion to me. Currently not implemented
> in the CV, but I'll make another tentative note on CV development.
>
> One thing that I just thought of: what if a piece of software can
> perform multiple functions (i.e.: 'acquisition' as well as 'peakpicking'
> -- doable in the CV through simple multi-parenting), but is used in only
> one capacity (say 'acquisition') while another piece of software is used
> for the other functionality (e.g., I used 'Mascot Distiller' for
> 'peakpicking').
>
> Do we want to keep track of such things, and is this possibly an
> argument against CV encoding here?
>

meh... As long as it fulfills the role in the from where it is referenced, I
see no problem with software that has multiple functionality.

-angel