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MGFp: An Open Mascot Generic Format Parser Library Implementation

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Marc Kirchner^†^‡, Judith A. J. Steen^§, Fred A. Hamprecht and Hanno Steen*^†^‡

Proteomics Center, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusettes, Departments of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusettes, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and T. M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusettes, and Multidimensional Image Processing Group, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg, Germany

J. Proteome Res., 2010, 9 (5), pp 2762–2763

DOI: 10.1021/pr100118f

Publication Date (Web): March 24, 2010

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Hanno Steen, Proteomics Center, Children’s Hospital Boston, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, E-mail: hanno.steen@childrens.harvard.edu., †

Proteomics Center, Children’s Hospital Boston.

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Departments of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston.

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Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and T. M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Children’s Hospital.

University of Heidelberg.

Abstract

Despite the efforts of the mass spectrometry (MS) community to migrate data representation toward modern file formats, legacy text formats still play an important role in MS data processing workflows. We provide a formal grammar and a portable, efficient C++ implementation for a Mascot Generic Format (MGF) parser. Software and technical documentation are available from http://software.steenlab.org/mgfp/.