RE: [Psidev-ms-dev] mzData Viewer now available

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

You're quite welcome!  (And thanks for "stonking", an excellent word.)  

A couple of us at Insilicos have had experience with data standards efforts in other industries and we've found that there's nothing
like a viewer and some freely available source code to encourage adoption of a format.  (Speaking of which, another useful bit of
code is at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/sashimi/readmzXML/ which you can use to convert your mzData files to ASCII text - a
useful debugging tool when writing an mzData output.)

The mzData reader code was tested using the example files which the mzData community has made available, but I won't be surprised
when wildtype mzData files expose some issues.  I'll be grateful to anyone who lets me know about any problems that crop up.  

And here's a shout-out to Patrick Pedrioli who wrote the original mzXML reader code which was so readily extended to read mzData.

- Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Taylor [mailto:chr...@eb...] 
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 2:18 PM
> To: bri...@in...
> Cc: psi...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Psidev-ms-dev] mzData Viewer now available
> 
> Wow!!!
> 
> That is just fantastic. On behalf of all involved in the project over 
> the last few years can I express our deep gratitutde for 
> committing the 
> person-hours to get this to the public. Just plain fantastic. 
> Now anyone 
> can get 'touchy-feely' with their (mz)data  :D
> 
> For those who want a quick play, the best example file to grab is at 
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/psidev/myo_full_1.05cv.zip?download
> (although I wouldn't go trying it on a 56k modem as it is 8-odd meg).
> 
> Stonking (if you'll forgive a little vernacular *).
> 
> Cheers, Chris.
> 
> * Courtesy of 'Wordweb'...
>    Adjective: Stonking
>    Usage: Brit.
>    Meaning: (informal, for emphasis) excellent
>    Example: "a stonking good read"
> 
> 
> Brian Pratt wrote:
> > Greetings All,
> > 
> > A while back I posted a notice about some work I was doing 
> to integrate mzData reading capability into the ISB Sashimi 
> tools.  That
> > work is now included in our InsilicosViewer MS data viewing 
> software, which is available at
> > http://www.insilicos.com/free_downloads.html.  
> > 
> > The source code for the mzData reading part of the viewer 
> is available at
> > 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/sashimi/trans_proteomic_
> pipeline/src/Parsers/ramp/
> > 
> > Hopefully these resources will be of use to folks 
> implementing systems using mzData.
> > 
> > Enjoy!
> > 
> > Brian Pratt
> > Insilicos LLC
> > 
> > 
> > 
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