NAME¶

idconvert — Convert mass spectrometry identification file formats.

SYNOPSIS¶

idconvert [options] [filemasks]

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly the idconvert software shipped within the libpwiz-tools package. This program allows one to convert mass spectrometry protein identification data files from one format to another.

OPTIONS¶

-v | --verbose

Display detailed processing progress information.

-f | --filelist filename

Uses the contents of filename which lists filenames.

-o | --outdir dir

Set the output directory ('-' for stdout) to dir. By default, the output directory is '.' (that is, the current working directory).

-c | --config filename

Set the configuration file to filename.

-e | --ext ext

Set the extension of the output files to ext. Can be mzid or pepXML or txt.

--mzIdentML

Write mzIdentML format (default).

--pepXML

Write pepXML format.

--text

Write hierarchical text format.

EXAMPLES¶

Convert sequest.pepXML to sequest.mzid idconvert sequest.pepXML Convert mascot.mzid to mascot.pepXML idconvert mascot.mzid --pepXML Use a configuration file idconvert xtandem.pep.xml -c config.txt

RETURN VALUE¶

The number of failed files.

AUTHOR¶

Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org> This manual page was written by Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org> (initial writing 05 december 2013). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3, published by the Free Software Foundation. On a Debian system the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 3 can be found in the file ` /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.