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Posted by Richard Jacob (June 23, 2026)

Automation of report creation for Mascot Distiller: MSstats report

In April’s blog post, we introduced the mascot-parser skill and developed an example QC plot. In this follow-up post, we introduce a Mascot Distiller skill and develop a new report that saves an MSstats formatted file from Distiller results. Mascot Distiller has a range of reports that cover a lot of common use cases. It is not possible to include [...]

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Posted by Richard Jacob (April 28, 2026)

Automate data processing and reporting with coding assistants

With the advent of large language model (LLM) coding assistants developing software and novel reports has never been easier. We now provide a coding skill for LLMs that allows the coding assistant to interact with Mascot Server, automate tasks and generate custom reports. Although LLMs are well known to hallucinate, the coding skill combined with good planning of the experimental analysis will avoid most [...]

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Posted by Patrick Emery (March 18, 2024)

Tutorial: Creating custom reports in Mascot Distiller

Mascot Distiller 2.8 reports are written in Python, a commonly used programming language, and use Mascot Parser to access the search and quantitation results. We supply a range of standard reports, including reports for quality, clustering and statistical analysis, which we took a look at in an earlier blog article. In addition to these, you can develop your own reports [...]

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