Licensing overview

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Mascot Server

Mascot Server is a powerful search engine for identifying proteins from mass spectrometry data. It is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux on Intel and AMD processors.

Entry level is a Small licence (8 cores/16 threads). There are no restrictions on the number of users submitting searches to the Mascot server or the size of the searches. If you require greater speed or throughput, you can upgrade to Medium (16 cores/32 threads) or Large tier (128 cores/256 threads).

If the system has more cores than are covered by the licence, the surplus cores are used for generating reports and web server/operating system overhead.

The licence is perpetual, not an annual fee, and includes 1 year warranty covering technical support and all updates. After the first year, if you wish to continue receiving technical support and updates, you have the option of purchasing a support contract for 35% of the licence fee per year. Alternatively, you can buy a single version update for 50% of the licence fee.

When choosing hardware, choose a system with an 8-16 core processor with high clock speed (3.5Ghz to 4GHz); 16GB RAM or more; maybe 1-2 TB of storage. NVMe storage speeds up data processing before and after a database search, but not during the database search. There are more detailed notes in PC hardware for Mascot Server.

Mascot Daemon

Mascot Daemon, a Windows client for automating search submission, is bundled with Mascot Server. It can be installed as required without additional licence fees.

Mascot Distiller

Mascot Distiller is a vendor independent application for quantifying proteins and peptides from a Mascot database search. It offers a single, intuitive interface to native (“raw”) mass spectrometry data files from Agilent, Bruker, SCIEX, Shimadzu, Thermo and Waters.

Mascot Distiller is a Windows workstation application, for installation on a single PC. Multiple users can share a single installation by logging in to Windows as different users via Windows Remote Desktop or similar (requires a server edition of Windows).

We recommend installing Distiller on a PC with fast multi-core processor(s), at least 32GB of RAM (preferably 64GB) and a few terabytes of fast storage (RAID or NVMe). When processing a multi-file project, Distiller can use all of the available processing capacity.

Mascot Parser

Mascot Parser is a toolkit providing an object oriented interface to Mascot Server result files and Mascot Distiller project files. Mascot Parser makes it easy for programs written in C++, C#, Python, Java or Perl to access Mascot results. It is free for all purposes except redistribution as part of a commercial software package.