News Archive
Jan 05, 2012 - Happy new year mMass users!

Dec 02, 2011 - mMass 4.0 released
Version 4.0 of mMass software has been released with additional new features and bug fixes.
- New: Additional Sequence Editor to define custom peptide sequence with non-standard amino acids.
- New: Peptide sequence can be set as linear or cyclic.
- New: N-terminal modifications can be saved in presets.
- New: Internal monomer library with more that 500 building blocks according to NORINE database. (Please make sure you place the monomers.xml file into your configs folder under MS Windows or Linux.)
- New: Monomer Library Editor to allow user-defined monomers and corresponding neutral losses.
- New: Improved Peptide Fragmentation tool with more fragmentation pathways.
- New: Gaussian smoothing filter.
- New: Overall matched intensity is calculated and shown in Match panel and Sample Report.
- New: Envelope Fit tool to determine heavy atoms exchange (e.g for HDX experiments).
- New: Monoisotopic mass determination for large proteins with isotopically resolved envelope.
- New: Charge state is shown in the bottom bar for Measure Distance tool and current difference.
- New: Save All feature to save all opened documents at once.
- New: Current document’s path is shown in Document Info panel.
- New: Charge column is shown for annotations and sequence matches in Sample Report.
- New: User’s Guide PDF is accessible via application menu Help.
- Changed: Definition of the z-series ions according to Mascot.
- Changed: Polished icons to better fit into OS X Lion.
- Fixed: An issue with mzData time parameter.
Sep 06, 2011 - LIPID MAPS database updated
New database of lipids is available in download section.
Aug 28, 2011 - mMass 3.12.1 released
Version 3.12.1 of mMass software has been released with important bug fixes.
- Fixed: Application sometimes crashed while closing last document.
- Fixed: Some peaks were skipped when peak picking height was set to 100%.
- Fixed: Calibration curve sometimes did not fit well.
Jul 14, 2011 - mMass 3.12 released
Version 3.12 of mMass software has been released with additional new features and bug fixes.
- New: Deconvolution tool to generate deconvoluted peak list from peaks with assigned charge.
- New: New document can be created directly from clipboard data.
- New: Different application layouts are available via Window menu.
- New: Group name parameter can be specified for any peak via Peak Editor.
- New: Group name column can be shown in Peaklist Panel.
- New: For Label Envelope tool, final intensity can be calculated as envelope max, sum or average.
- Improved: Faster calculation of complex isotopic distributions.
- Improved: Spectrum Generator tool is using native peak’s FWHM value to generate spectra.
- Changed: Unified toolbar for all platforms.
- Fixed: Isotopic envelope was not calculated correctly for single-isotope compounds.
- Fixed: Peak list was not updated correctly after applying math functions.
- Fixed: Some toolbars were not drawn correctly in floating panels.
- Fixed: Peak lists concatenation (A+B) did not work correctly.
May 31, 2011 - ASMS 2011 - Denver
Would you like to talk about mMass? Do you have some ideas for new features? Please meet me near my poster (ThP418) at ASMS 2011 in Denver. I am looking forward to talking with you.
May 10, 2011 - mMass 3.11 released
Version 3.11 of mMass software has been released with additional new features and bug fixes.
- New: Simple Spectrum Generator tool for artificial mass spectra generation.
- New: Cancel button for long-running tasks.
- New: All peak picking tools are using baseline calculated according to Baseline Correction panel.
- New: Live threshold line preview is shown for Peak Picking tool according to current settings.
- New: Label Envelope tool to label isotopes or envelope centroid or to “measure” peak charge.
- New: Isotope mass shift correction parameter in Deisotoping panel.
- New: Support for MGF (Mascot Generic Format) data format.
- New: User annotations and sequence matches can be shown as “labels” in Spectrum Viewer.
- New: Peaklist Panel columns can be enabled or disabled.
- New: A.i. value can be shown in Peaklist Panel.
- New: Neutral mass is calculated and can be shown in Peaklist Panel.
- New: Left-click+Alt/Ctrl on a document title in Documents Panel hides other documents.
- New: Scale y-axis simply by mouse scroll with the cursor positioned in the y-axis area.
- New: Sequence accession number can be specified in Sequence Editor.
- New: Direct links to protein databases are available in Report via protein accession numbers.
- New: H3PO4 neutral loss added to Sequence Fragmentation panel.
- New: Semi-specific mass search in Sequence Panel can be enabled.
- Improved: Various speed improvements for high-resolution data.
- Improved: Application closing is much faster.
- Changed: Parameters of manual peak picking tools were moved to corresponding processing panels.
- Fixed: Documents loading queue.
- Fixed: Sequence Editor popup menu now behaves correctly.
- Fixed: Specifity filter in Sequence Modifications panel correctly handles terminal amino acids.
- Fixed: Metadata (e.g. operator, contact) are correctly loaded from mzData, mzXML and mzML.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue causing axis labels overlapping.
Apr 25, 2011 - Follow mMass on Twitter
mMass is now on twitter as @mmassorg. Follow the latest news, announcements of the new features in current development version or send me your own requests.
Feb 24, 2011 - mMass 3.10 for Linux
Thanks to the Sebastian Gibb from the University of Leipzig (Germany) you can now download mMass for different Linux distributions - Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE and Debian. Thank you Sebastian!
Feb 23, 2011 - mMass 3.10 released
Version 3.10 of mMass software has been released with additional new features and bug fixes.
- New: Mass Filter tool to annotate or remove contaminant masses.
- New: Set Mass Range tool to specify current mass range in Spectrum Panel.
- New: Font and line scaling can be specified in Export Spectrum Image tool.
- New: Peak list filter can be specified in Match panel and protein identification tools.
- New: IDs for NCBI PubChem Compounds and NORINE peptide database are recognized in Report.
- Improved: New items in Peptide Fragmentation panel.
- Changed: Data normalization tool moved to Processing Panel.
- Changed: All annotations and sequence matches are removed when processing tools are applied.
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