Modules

Mascot results file module - To extract data from Mascot results files into other applications or to a relational database
Mascot configuration files module - To access the Mascot configuration files from a server or client application.
Mascot security and authentication module - For Mascot 2.1 and later server side applications only.
Mascot utilities and tools module - Miscellaneous tools for creating CDB files, zipping files, other file utilities and clustering.
Error handling and logging - for details on error handling and logging.
Quantitation analysis for Mascot Server and Distiller - for client and server applications.
Classes for calculating masses of peptides and fragments. - Classes for calculating masses of peptides and fragments.
Accessing a Mascot Server using HTTP - login, search submission and results retrieval are supported.

Installation

Getting Started

Upgrading from previous versions

The following files are distributed with Mascot Parser.

The C++ files are categorised under directories named after each supported C++ compiler. The Perl module is supplied and installed with Mascot Server from version 2.0 onwards.

Directory	Files	Description
compiler`/include`	`msparser.hpp` and a number of other include files.	C++ headers; see C++ toolkit installation
compiler`/lib`	`.lib` or `.a` `.dll` or `.so.1`	C++ library files; see C++ toolkit installation
compiler`/example_cxx`	`*.cpp`	C++ examples
`doc`	`index.html` Other html and javascript files	Help for use from a web browser
	`MascotParserUML.pdf`	The UML diagram as a PDF (same as in the HTML help)
	`Developer Licence Agreement.pdf`	Developer Licence Agreement as a PDF
`example_csharp`	`*.cs`	C# examples
`example_java`	`*.java`	Java examples
`example_perl`	`*.pl`	Perl examples
`example_python`	`*.py`	Python examples
`java`	`msparser.dll` or `libmsparserj.so` `msparser.jar`	Java library; see Java toolkit installation
`perl516` (Linux only) `perl518` (Linux only) `perl520` (Linux only) `perl522` (Linux only) `perl524` `perl526` `perl528` `perl530` `perl532` `perl534` (Linux only) `perl536` (Linux only)	`msparser.dll` or `msparser*.so` `msparser.pm`	Perl module; see Perl toolkit installation
`python36_and_later`	`_msparser.so` or `_msparser.pyd` `msparser.py`	Python module; see Python toolkit installation
`csharp`	`msparsercs.dll` `matrix_science.msparser.dll`	C# module; see C# toolkit installation