Re: [Psidev-ms-dev] Open XML

[Brian P. <bri...@in...>]

Yeah, I don't think you're going to see raw data being loaded into Excel.
presumably they meant Sequest results.

 

Brian

 

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Subject: Re: [Psidev-ms-dev] Open XML

 

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BioIT Alliance Continues to Grow

June 2008

 

Launched in 2006 with 15 members, the Microsoft-led BioIT Alliance has grown
to 77 members and plans to expand its scope in a world in which the road to
interoperability for users or vendors is not yet fully mapped.

 

At the recent Bio-IT World Conference, Rudy Potenzone, director of the BioIT
Alliance and industry technology strategist for pharmaceuticals at
Microsoft, said that one way the initiative plans to expand in the year
ahead is by launching a SharePoint portal that will let users build and try
out Web components.

 

As an example, Les Jordan, Microsoft's life science industry technology
strategist, pointed out during a conference session that Thermo Fisher
Scientific recently announced it was starting to enable results from its lab
equipment to be output into the Open XML format.

 

With Open XML, he said, scientists can pull data off an instrument via a Web
service and import it directly into the "scientist's favorite tool," Excel.
It could then travel onto a high-performance computing cluster, while users
can access the data in a portal where it can be viewed, searched, and
shared. "It is sitting in an open standard and people can access it though a
Web service," said Jordan. "This is going to allow people to innovate."

 

Richard LeDuc, co-director of Washington University School of Medicine's
proteomics and mass-spectrometry core facility, voiced concerns about
applying this idea in his facility because the conversion from Thermo's .RAW
mass spectrometry files to Open XML files dramatically increases their size.
He described himself as a heavy Microsoft user who also develops in the
Microsoft environment.

Although he has not transformed files to Open XML, in the past he and his
colleagues have written code to pull mass spectrometry data off instruments
and to transform the proprietary .RAW binary files into XML. "They tend to
explode, in my experience, on the order of threefold," he said.

 

-Vivien Marx

 

 

On Jul 8, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Darren Kessner wrote:





Hi guys,

I saw this little blurb on Thermo's plans to export data to Microsoft's 
Open XML for use in Excel:
http://www.genome-technology.com/issues/2_15/techspotlight/147264-1.html

Jim, do you have any more details on this?


Darren





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