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Posted by Patrick Emery (March 15, 2023)

Generating high quality spectral libraries for DIA-MS

Using Mascot Daemon, Mascot Distiller and Mascot Server A recent paper from Manda et al.[1] describes a pipeline to generate high quality spectral libraries from Data-Dependent Acquisition (DDA) experiments for use in searching Data-Independent Acquisition (DIA) data, starting from the raw data, through to generating the library from the search results. The pipeline uses a collection of different tools in [...]

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Posted by Patrick Emery (December 16, 2022)

Peak picking intact crosslink spectra with Mascot Distiller

There are several important factors to take into account when carrying out peakpicking for an intact crosslinked dataset. You’ll typically be dealing with higher charge state precursors to handle the larger masses of the linked peptides, and the MS/MS spectra are inherently complex, chimeric spectra with fragments from the alpha and beta peptides. To look at the effects of adjusting [...]

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Posted by Richard Jacob (October 14, 2022)

Complementary reporter ion clusters in TMT/TMTpro labeling

We recently received a support request about complementary ions in TMTpro labeling. Complementary ions are formed during fragmentation, where the precursor loses the reporter ion and carbon monoxide, leaving behind the peptide and the balance region of the label. Complementary ion spacing is similar to reporter ions but the mass varies depending on peptide mass. The customer was concerned that [...]

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Posted by Patrick Emery (September 23, 2022)

Reporting quantitation datasets with Mascot Distiller 2.8

In previous versions of Distiller, reporting of quantitation results was handled using XSLT transformation of the XML export of the quantitation results. XSLT is a powerful language, but it’s not commonly used, so writing custom reports could be an uphill stuggle. In Mascot Distiller 2.8, reports are written in Python and use Mascot Parser to access the search and quantitation [...]

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Posted by Patrick Emery (June 20, 2022)

Divide and conquer: Fractionated Label Free Quantitation in Mascot Distiller 2.8.2

We have recently released Mascot Distiller 2.8.2. The headline new feature is support for Label-Free Quantitation of fractionated samples. With Mascot Distiller 2.8, individual raw files in a project are aligned against a consensus generated by roughly aligning and combining the total ion chromatograms (TICs) of each raw file. If a peptide match is found in one sample file and [...]

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Posted by Patrick Emery (January 24, 2022)

Default or prof_prof? Peak picking Thermo .RAW data with Mascot Distiller

We supply a number of processing options files for each of the main vendor raw file types with Mascot Distiller. These .opt files are designed as a reasonable starting point for peak picking your own data – but to get the very best you’ll need to tweak the parameters on a typical raw file from your instruments and then use [...]

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Posted by Patrick Emery (October 25, 2021)

Choosing hardware for Mascot Distiller

One question which comes up frequently with regards to Mascot Distiller is what is a good specification for the workstation it’s going to be installed on. By that, we’re really interested in what sort of CPU you should be getting, how much RAM the workstation should have, and what sort of disk drives (SSD or HDD) should you be getting. [...]

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Posted by Patrick Emery (May 24, 2021)

Improving precursor quantitation results with ion mobility filtering

One of the major new features in Mascot Distiller 2.8 is support for raw data files from the Bruker timsTOF instrument. timsTOF combines an ion mobility dimension with QTOF, allowing an additional separation dimension. The instrument can use this to help separate MS/MS spectra from otherwise isobaric peptides. Mascot Distiller 2.8 can use the precursor ion mobility values for identified [...]

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Posted by Patrick Emery (April 28, 2021)

Global thinking: Label Free Quantitation in Mascot Distiller 2.8

Mascot Distiller supports a wide range of precursor based quantitation methods, including two label-free methods, which we call Replicate and Average. Version 2.8 makes significant improvements to the Replicate method. This is the method for label-free quantitation based on the relative intensities of extracted ion chromatograms (XICs) for precursors in multiple data sets aligned using mass and elution time. Replicate [...]

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Posted by John Cottrell (October 19, 2020)

Solving a puzzle with Mascot Distiller de novo

Have you tried either of the MS/MS interpretation challenges organised by EUPA and LBMSDG? Maybe you are expert enough to read off the peptide sequence, directly. If so, you can stop reading right here! If your interpretation skills and mental arithmetic are a bit rusty, we thought it might be useful to walk through how Mascot Distiller plus a bit [...]

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