[Psidev-ms-dev] mzIdent opinion

[Chris T. <ch...@eb...>]

Hi to you all. Sorry for the double post if you get both...

After the release of mzData, we are now looking at mzIdent (a.k.a. 
mzProtID/mzAnalysis). I'd like to ask for opinions on something: Someone 
suggested a kind of dual functionality for mzIdent that goes something 
like; (1) use the format to 'wrap up' the data to be analysed (either by 
containment or reference -- either way search engines would still need 
to be able to read mzData) with the parameters to the search engine to 
be employed for the analysis; (2) after the search, add to the submitted 
file by appending the results of that search to it. Note: the file to 
which mzIdent refers could be an mzData file or anything else appropriate.

Also I'd think the format should be designed so that someone could _not_ 
use it this way, and could still just use it to capture the output as 
initially conceived (not impossible I'd say).

As initially conceived, mzIdent was to be specifically for the capture 
of the results of an analysis, relying on tool providers to do the 
grabbing of the (mz)data and parameters separately. I'd really like to 
hear thoughts on this idea though, before we go to far with it.

Cheers, Chris.

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