title: M2Lite: An Open-source, Light-weight, Pluggable and Fast Proteome Discoverer MSF to mzIdentML Tool.
abstract: Proteome Discoverer is one of many tools used for protein database search and peptide to spectrum assignment in mass spectrometry-based proteomics. However, the inadequacy of conversion tools makes it challenging to compare and integrate its results to those of other analytical tools. Here we present M2Lite, an open-source, light-weight, easily pluggable and fast conversion tool. M2Lite converts proteome discoverer derived MSF files to the proteomics community defined standard - the mzIdentML file format. M2Lite's source code is available as open-source at https://bitbucket.org/paiyetan/m2lite/src and its compiled binaries and documentation can be freely downloaded at https://bitbucket.org/paiyetan/m2lite/downloads.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, United States of America.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Aiyetan
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, United States of America.
authors.forename: Bai
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, United States of America.
authors.forename: Lily
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, United States of America.
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, United States of America.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
keywords: Bioinformatics; IDPicker; MSF; Peptide identification; Proteome Discoverer; Proteomics; mzIdentML; pepXML