Re: [Psidev-ms-dev] Transient data.

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

It might not respond well to zlib compression, but wouldn't this kind of 
data be well-suited to any other kind of compression designed to 
capitalize on the relatively small differences between sequential 
elements? The mzXML ruler style compression, perhaps?

-Matt


Christopher Mason wrote:
> Darren-
>
> I missed the phone call but I'm curious about your use of mzML with 
> Fourier instruments / transients.
>
> What instrument were you contemplating using this with?  With what kind 
> of transient sizes?  On an Orbitrap or LTQ-FT with 1-2 Mword transients, 
> aren't we talking around 2-4 mbytes per transient even before base64 
> encoding?  In my experience, the don't compress very well either.
>
> This is the use case I've always worried about with any xml data format.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -c
>
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