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New features in Mascot 2.1

Flexible, role-based security model

Mascot security administration

The security model allows a Mascot administrator to:

Prevent un-authorised changes to the Mascot server configuration
Restrict access to the administration utilities that allow deletion of searches and other job control functions
Restrict access to result files and sequence databases based on group membership
Control the type, number, and priority of searches from each group
Provide standard "session" support, (with time-outs), so users do not need to continually re-enter passwords
Allow client applications, such as Mascot Daemon, to run searches as the "customer" in a service or core lab environment

Easy export of Mascot search results in a variety of CSV and XML formats

The Export search results utility enables Mascot search results to be exported in a variety of "machine readable" formats: Custom XML and CSV, pepXML, and DTASelect. The file format can be chosen and customised interactively, using a web browser form, or the utility can be executed by scripts, with the options specified on the command line.

Mascot security administration

mzData 1.05 is fully supported as an input file format.

mzData is a data format for capturing peak list information defined by the Proteomics Standards Initiative.

Many enhancements to Mascot Daemon

Peak lists from data import filters are saved to disk
Can merge a batch of data files into single search
Window is re-sizeable, (at last!)
No limits on the size of data files
Choose to run the background component on the desktop if there are problems running it as a service
Option to save Mascot Distiller project file, (requires Mascot Distiller 2.0)

Other important changes