Re: [Psidev-ms-dev] Unique scan numbers

[Fredrik L. <Fre...@im...>]

I've just followed this thread briefly since I have no intention to 
generate these index files, so I should probably just keep quiet. 
Anyway, how would it be to enforce a naming convention for spectrum ids 
so that the native scans can be extracted in the case when there is just 
one scan as the source for the spectrum? I think this is what Matt 
proposes, and it seems fine to me. That way there is no need to change 
the main schema or idx. The spectrum id could be regex checked and 
that's all. For example: S1F1C1 would mean scan1, function 1, cycle 1, 
while S1 just means scan 1. One could add a regex check to the main 
schema for the spectrum id, for example "S[0-9]+(F[0-9])?" for scan and 
optional function. I am not a regex expert, but I am sure someone could 
come up with a regex which is at least rather future safe for native 
scan references, and which allows some local variants to encode other 
information in the spectrum ID. This could also be used for the 
acquisition external spectrum id ref.

Regards

Fredrik