Re: [Psidev-ms-dev] Phone conference meeting minutes

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

SeeMS is a free, open source GUI-based tool to visualize spectra and 
chromatograms. It uses ProteoWizard for reading from spectral files. It 
supports formats that ProteoWizard supports, which are currently mzML, 
mzXML, MGF, Thermo RAW (w/ Xcalibur), Waters RAW (w/ MassLynx), and the 
Bruker BioTools DataExchange (BTDX.xml) format. So far, the tool is a 
sort of test-bed so it's rather unpolished, but it's very usable for 
basic visualization. SeeMS will also let you explore some of the more 
flexible metadata in mzML, like multiple precursors with multiple 
selected ions, instrument configurations, etc.

An alternative would be Insilicos's spectrum viewer, which has been 
updated with the most recent RAMP (which in turn uses ProteoWizard for 
reading mzML). It might also inherit some other formats, but Brian Pratt 
could answer that better than me.

-Matt


Wilfred H Tang wrote:
>
> > PSI-MS Phone Conference Minutes, dd. 4 August 2008
> > -------------------------------
> > Attendance:
> >   - Matt Chambers
> >   - Eric Deutsch
> >   - Jim Schofstahl
> >   - Lennart Martens
> >
> >
> > Minutes:
> >   - MS Validator
> > Lennart has submitted a revised codebase of the validator to the SVN
> > repository. Apart from some cosmetic changes to the GUI, the thing is
> > operational. There are still some CV issues however -- see below -- 
> that
> > need to be resolved prior to announcing the official release.
> >
>
> That sounds great. Also, what software currently exists that can read 
> in mzML and do something interesting with the data? For example, 
> displaying the data visually as mass spectra? Something like that 
> could be quite useful for sanity-checking if mzML files appear to be 
> correctly-formatted.
>
> Thanks,
> Wilfred
>