pepAlign

Copyright Notice

pepAlign is Copyright (C) 2001- Magnus Palmblad and Jeroen de Bruin

pepAlign is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

About pepAlign

pepAlign aligns LC-MS/MS data, through peptide identifications, with accurate mass LC-MS data, for instance from a TOF, Orbitrap or FTICR mass spectrometer. This version of pepAlign is primarily meant for inclusion and use with scientific workflow managers such as Taverna.


Download pepAlign here. (Right-click and choose "Save Link As...".)

Compiling pepAlign

Compile pepAlign with: gcc -O3 -o pepAlign pepAlign.c -lm

Using pepAlign

Usage: pepAlign -p <pepXML file to be aligned> -m <accurate mass LC-MS data in mzXML> -e <max. mass measurement error> -R <first mzXML scan>,<last mzXML scan> -P <first pepXML scan>,<last pepXML scan> -L <lower peptide score bound> -U <upper peptide bound> -t <threshold score variable (probability, E-value...)> -M <alignment mode (time/scan)> [-o <output file>]



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