ProTrawler/Support
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This is the support page for ProTrawler and ProAngler.
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User Guide
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Sections:
GUI Tour - Quick Start Tutorial - Reference Guide
Best Practices and Usability Tips - Appendices
FAQ
The FAQ is driven by user feedback.
Application Notes
We'll add ProTrawler Application Notes as our developments warrant.
Best Practices
Best Practices and Usability Tips are in the ProTrawler User Guide.
Validation
The best way to validate ProTrawler is to compare individual and co-added scan values with what the instrument vendor software reports. ProTrawler should be exactly the same in both m/z and intensity. If not, please report it.
You may also wish to compare deconvolved spectra from ProTrawler and the-software-that-came-with-your-instrument. There may be disagreements, but we are more likely to defend our results than attempt to reproduce whatever your vendor's software gives.
Known Issues
View/Model tab disappearing data
From time to time, ProTrawler has been known to drop pointers on the View/Model tab. This does not cause a crash. If you delete the non-responsive scans by hand, ProTrawler will continue to function without problems. -PEL 7/31/2007
Preferences and Peak labeling
The label "percent" should read "Resolution". It describes the exclusion range over which a higher apex will exclude the labeling of a lower apex. This will be changed shortly to "Resolving Power"
Display of specific isotopes
Selecting zero-charge masses after deisotoping does not highlight the m/z peaks used in the deisotoping process.
Updates, upgrades and reinstallation
The installer for ProTrawler or ProAngler (like Regatta's installer) requires full uninstallation of the existing version before it can be upgraded.
Absolute file size
As of version 6.1.0928, ProTrawler can read individual files up two 2^31=2147483648 bytes ~ 2.1 GB. We can read "chromatograms larger than that, but the chromatogram must be made up of files smaller that that limit. Also, we open and parse files larger than the 2.1 GB limit as long as no reads go to bytes with addresses greater than 2.1 GB. This will be resolved in a bug fix release.
Recent Fixes
The zero charge deconvolution tool was not correctly implementing the minimim and maximum adjacent charge feature. This has been correct in version 6.1.0928.
Feature Requests
We invite readers to contribute Feature Requests
