Version 3.1 released - Mar 03, 2010
New version of mMass is now available for download. Beside some minor bug fixes, there are many important new features:
- In addition to Mascot search tools a new interface for the excelent ProFound tool is now available for protein identifications. I would like to express my thanks to David Fenyo for his support.
- Thanks to Eoin Fahy from the excelent LipidMaps.org server we now have a permission to put their lipid database into mMass. You can use the Compounds Search tool to search for thousands of lipids and their corresponding adducts. In addition, if you annotate your matched peaks and make an Analysis Report, each lipid ID provides a direct link to LipidMaps.org to see the structure and other information.
- Protein or peptide sequences can now be imported from any mMass document (include modifications) or FASTA format. If you are using some sequences quite often it can be very handy to put all of them into a single mMass document and create your personal sequence library. You can then skip over the boring sequence editing, just import the sequence you like and all of its modifications as well.
- If you are using manual peak labeling (Label Peak tool) every labeled peak can now be set as monoisotopic automatically. In the spectrum Tools Properties (bottom toolbar) check "Set as monoisotopic" checkbox.
- Spectrum tools can now be selected via the main menu (Tools) or using a shortcut. In addition, new mouse cursors reflects currently selected tool.
- If you are opening multiple scans from a huge LC-MS file repeatedly, corresponding scan list is retained in a memory to speed-up the loading process.
- The peak-picking algorithm has been improved to correctly resolve adjacent peaks in high-resolution data.
- There has been some bugs in the Mascot Sequence Query tool which are now fixed.
- Some of the functions in mMass core library has been changed to be more "Pythonic".
Enjoy this new version and let me know your comments.