Matrix Science Mascot Parser toolkit

Modules

• Mascot results file module - To extract data from Mascot results files into other applications or to a relational database
• Mascot configuration files module - To access the Mascot configuration files from a server or client application.
• Mascot security and authentication module - For Mascot 2.1 and later server side applications only.
• Mascot utilities and tools module - Miscellaneous tools for creating CDB files, zipping files, other file utilities and clustering.
• Error handling and logging - for details on error handling and logging.
• Quantitation analysis for Mascot Server and Distiller - for client and server applications.
• Classes for calculating masses of peptides and fragments. - Classes for calculating masses of peptides and fragments.
• Accessing a Mascot Server using HTTP - login, search submission and results retrieval are supported.

Installation

• C++ toolkit installation
• Java toolkit installation
• Perl toolkit installation
• Python toolkit installation
• C# toolkit installation

Getting Started

• License information for Mascot Parser
• Getting started with Mascot Parser

Upgrading from previous versions

• Release notes and version history
• Updating from earlier versions of Mascot Parser

The following files are distributed with Mascot Parser.

The C++ files are categorised under directories named after each supported C++ compiler. The Perl module is supplied and installed with Mascot Server from version 2.0 onwards.

Directory	Files	Description
compiler/include	msparser.hpp and a number of other include files.	C++ headers; see C++ toolkit installation
compiler/lib	*.lib or *.a *.dll or *.so.1	C++ library files; see C++ toolkit installation
compiler/example_cxx	*.cpp	C++ examples
doc	index.html Other html and javascript files	Help for use from a web browser
	MascotParserUML.pdf	The UML diagram as a PDF (same as in the HTML help)
	Developer Licence Agreement.pdf	Developer Licence Agreement as a PDF
example_csharp	*.cs	C# examples
example_java	*.java	Java examples
example_perl	*.pl	Perl examples
example_python	*.py	Python examples
java	msparser.dll or libmsparserj.so msparser.jar	Java library; see Java toolkit installation
perl516 (Linux only) perl518 (Linux only) perl520 (Linux only) perl522 (Linux only) perl524 perl526 perl528 perl530 perl532 perl534 (Linux only)	msparser.dll or msparser*.so msparser.pm	Perl module; see Perl toolkit installation
python27 python34 python36 python37 python38 python39	_msparser.so or _msparser.pyd msparser.py	Python module; see Python toolkit installation
csharp	msparsercs.dll matrix_science.msparser.dll	C# module; see C# toolkit installation