New Mascot distributor in India: BioInnovations

We are pleased to announce a new distributor for Matrix Science products!

Customers in India and neighbouring countries can now buy Mascot Server through BioInnovations, who provide instruments, software, services and consumables for life sciences and analytical and clinical labs. In addition to India, the distribution agreement covers Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

BioInnovations are a Bruker channel partner and provide MALDI and timsTOF instruments for proteomics. Bruker BioTools and BioPharma Compass include native integration with Mascot Server for trusted protein identification by peptide mass fingerprinting and LC-MS/MS.

New pricing tiers for Mascot Server

We are pleased to announce a simplification to Mascot Server licensing tiers, which doubles the number of cores at the entry level.

The old licensing tiers were based on the number of CPU units between 1 and 32 CPU. The new licensing tiers are:

• Small: up to 8 cores (16 threads)
• Medium: up to 16 cores (32 threads)
• Large: up to 128 cores (256 threads)

We are also simplifying and reducing the cost of Mascot Server version updates. The current major version is 3.x, and the previous major version was 2.x. When updating from CPU-based licensing to Small/Medium/Large, the Mascot Server 2.x licence is treated as a 50% discount regardless of the number of licensed CPUs and regardless of the age of the licence.

Please contact us for pricing and quotes.

New help entry for Agilent instruments

Agilent have published an application note for recommended MassHunter Qualitative Analysis settings when searching DDA peak lists with Mascot Server. We’ve added a new help page for using Mascot with Agilent instruments, including information about using Mascot Distiller to process Agilent MassHunter files and a link to the Agilent application note.

Mascot Distiller 2.8.5.1 patch release

Mascot Distiller 2.8.5.1 is a minor patch release. This release fixes a single bug which is required to enable machine learning score refinement with Mascot Server 3.1.

The update is free to download. The full list of changes is available in the change log.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions.

Mascot Server 3.1 has been released

We are pleased to announce the official release of Mascot Server 3.1.

What’s new in Mascot Server 3.1

Customers with an active support contract receive the new version for free. If you’d like to update an earlier version, please contact us by e-mail or send us a quote request.