Open MiguelCos opened 2 days ago
Hi Miguel,
If the size of the diatracer.mzML file is smaller than the .raw file, I think something was wrong with your local hard drive or file system because the file loading time was super long, and becoming longer and longer:
While for the raw files, the issue is not so critical although the IO was also slow
I think the speed difference is not because of the search space, but the file loading.
Best,
Fengchao
Hello Fengchao,
Thanks for your comment. That makes sense.
I will try running the search from different drives and see the effect.
Best wishes, Miguel
Dear Fragpipe team,
We are comparing identification and quantitation numbers in spectral data acquired in DIA mode from TimsTOF Ultra and Thermo Astral.
Samples are N-terminally enriched extracts from Arabidopsis using a HUNTER protocol (protein extracts are treated with dimethyl to label N-termini as potential products of proteolysis and further enrichment of 'labelled' N-terminal peptides).
Searches on this data are expected to have a big search space: they need to be set at N-term semi specific, and normally we would set N-terminal peptide dimethyl and acetyl, K-dimethyl and pyro-Glu as variable modifications.
I am currently running two test searches:
MSFragger parameters are the same for both (summary as described above); but the difference in search times is quite important.
Other notes: mzML files generated by diaTracer (timsTOF) are located in a local hard-drive, while the Astral .raw files are located in a network drive.
Do you have particular experience with semi-specific or other large search spaces and timsTOF + IM data?
What could be increasing the search space so much in the first search when the number of fragments seems to be similar between both approaches? (maybe I am missing something). Also, the size of the .raw files is considerably larger than the diaTracer-generated mzMLs from the .d timsTOF data.
I would be glad to have some of your thoughts on this and maybe some ideas to improve search efficiency.
As usual, thanks for the hard work on developing and maintaining FragPipe!
Best wishes, Miguel