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'.

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