[Psidev-ms-dev] Hello from Tennessee

[David L. T. <dav...@va...>]

I've recently joined this list, and I wanted to introduce myself.  I'm 
Dave Tabb, a new assistant professor at Vanderbilt University.  I have 
been working in different areas of shotgun proteome informatics for 
about nine years.  My interest in PSI comes from several motivations:

1) I want to develop software that can make use of data from several 
instrument platforms.  The Mass Spec Research Center here has QTOFs, 
TOF/TOFs, QITs, and other types of instruemnts.  If it can produce 
tandem mass spectra, I'll want to push its spectra through the software 
my group develops.  As such, seeing mzData export available from 
instrument manufacturers' software would pose a real benefit to me.

2) I want the analytical results from my tools to be legible by other 
software packages.  If I write a database identifier (a la Sequest or 
Mascot), I want its identifications to be readable by (for example) 
PeptideProphet.  I've had only a cursory look at mzIdent, but I'm 
hopeful that it or another format will mature to be usable for that purpose.

3) I met Chris Taylor at a workshop in Michigan, and I figure any group 
that he participates in is likely to be entertaining.

Thanks!

Dave Tabb