Re: [Psidev-pi-dev] Fragment ion information

[Lennart M. <len...@eb...>]

(ooops, I originally only sent this to David rather than the whole list. 
Corrected here).

Hi David,


 >  >>> Let the argument (re-)commence!
 > Good to hear from you - maybe ;)

Always glad to help :) .


 > Just to clarify, without this, there is no information haemorrhaging. 
 > It's just rather hard to reconstruct some of the information... which 
 > you may say is the same thing.

Yes, I'd say it's the same thing. If something is difficult, nobody (or 
practically nobody) will expend the effort to do it, and many (like 
myself) will simply sit in a corner and complain about how difficult it 
is to do this. Finally, some of those who do decide to do something will 
do it badly.

 > What's the problem with a separate to tool to generate the 
information > from the (less huge) anaylsisXML file and the mzML file?

I can come up with three reasons right now:
  i) that the tool may not exist (anymore);
  ii) that the tool may not be up-to-date (or may be too up-to-date, 
pick and choose which one you like); and
  iii) that the information is no longer atomic (I'd need access to both 
the file and the tool to get all relevant information).


Cheers,

lnnrt.