Hello Paul, The quickest way to greater understanding on the use of the tools is to execute the binaries in question at the command line with no options specified. The output will show information about their usage. For example on my old Linux install of TPP 4.8, at the command line, I change directory to the …/tpp/bin directory and type in e.g. ./xinteract. There is quite a bit of usage information output for xinteract since it is a wrapper for many of the binaries to execute them in succession to form the pipeline. If you page down (in my version) after running the xinteract command there is this output which references PTMProphet:
PTMProphet options [run PTMProphet on the iProphet result with options that follow the '-M' (e.g. -M-STY,79.9663-MZTOL=0.4)]: -{<amino acids, n, or c>,<mass_shift>,...} [specify mod masses (e.g. -STY,79.9663,K,114.0429,M,15.9949)] -MZTOL=<number> [Use specified +/- mz tolerance on site specific ions (default=0.1 dalton)] -NOUPDATE [Don't update modification_info tags in pepXML] Also running the binaries at the command line can sometimes aid in troubleshooting since they tend to output more information about what is going on than is displayed via the GUI web interface. Aside from this, you can also look up the published papers on many of the tools, attend the periodic TPP training courses, and ask questions to this forum. I am personally not aware of any tutorials for PTMProphet or most of the other tools for that matter. It would be a wonderful thing were the TPP developer team to provide tutorials (online not just the courses which you must attend in person) that cover the breadth and depth of the TPP toolset much like what the developers of Skyline and Maxquant have done. This would enable many more people to learn and use the TPP tools at their own pace, in their own environment. I think that would markedly increase TPP usage around the world. Cheers, Brian On Jan 5, 2018, at 10:29 AM, Paul Abraham <pabraham6...@gmail.com<mailto:pabraham6...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, I am having a difficult time locating documentation for several of the TPP tools. For example, the PTMProphet tool referenced on the wiki page does not have any supporting documentation. Am I missing some obscure landing page somewhere? The only information I find for how to efficiently utilize this tool is by scouring this forum and this is by no means a good use of time, considering most posts highlight the issues. Can anyone point to documentation for this tool particularly, but other TPP tools as well? Regards, Paul -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spctools-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to spctools-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:spctools-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to spctools-discuss@googlegroups.com<mailto:spctools-discuss@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spctools-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to spctools-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to spctools-discuss@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.