[Psidev-ms-dev] mzData issues

[Andy J. <aj...@cs...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to convert data from various different instruments into mzData
and I have a few questions.

 

1.	One of the instruments produces plain text output for the peak list
(peak [tab] intensity). Does anyone have a script or some code for turning
this into the mzData base 64 binary. Otherwise, any advice for how best to
do this would be welcome.
2.	What is the current time scale for the updated version of mzData
that is being discussed. If I produce parsers that convert to mzData v 1.05,
will I need to re-write them fairly soon for the next version?
3.	What are the current plans with respect to future versions of mzXML
and mzData. I have tried out the ProteomeSystems converter. It runs very
slowly over large files but it does produce valid mzData files, although I
don't know how to check if the peak list conversion is correct. Is this a
viable way of producing mzData if I can get mzXML files first? Does anyone
have any experience of using the converter in practice.

 

Any advice would be most appreciated, cheers,

Andy