[spctools-discuss] error while using TPP to view annotated spectra while browsing pepXML annotations

2012-08-02 Thread Jesse
Hi everyone, I am trying to trick TPP into letting me use it to view annotated spectra from a currently unsupported search algorithm, MS-GFDB (which is an excellent tool by the way). I was able to use a script I found online, msgfdb2pepxml.py, to make the pepxml file and it does load using

Re: [spctools-discuss] error while using TPP to view annotated spectra while browsing pepXML annotations

2012-08-02 Thread Jimmy Eng
Jessie, The spectral viewer tries to read the spectra in .mzXML, .mzML, .dta or collection of .dta compressed into a .tgz archive. So it doesn't assume your data is in a .tgz file, that was just one of the attempts it went through to try and access the underlying spectral data to display and

Re: [spctools-discuss] error while using TPP to view annotated spectra while browsing pepXML annotations

2012-08-02 Thread Jesse
Thanks for your fast and detailed reply, Jimmy! A combination of your suggestions solved the problem. First I moved the file A1A2merged.mzXML into the correct directory specified in the pepXML file. Second, I needed to change the following line in the .pepXML file from: msms_run_summary