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ProteoWizard Installation and Data Formats


Installation

To install the ProteoWizard tools, download the binary package for your platform, and unzip it into the directory of your choice.

For convenience, adjust your "PATH" environment variable to include your ProteoWizard tools directory, so that the command line tools may be run from any directory.


Open Formats

ProteoWizard supports the reading/writing of the following open formats on all platforms:


Proprietary Formats supported by ProteoWizard

ProteoWizard depends on vendor-supplied software libraries to access data in proprietary formats.

Common requirements:

You can check to see whether the required components are installed:

Vendor-specific requirements:

Accessing certain vendor-format data files requires a separate download/install, as indicated in the table below.

Vendor Formats Vendor Required Software Required Runtime Libraries License
Agilent MassHunter .d distributed with ProteoWizard none Apache
Applied Biosystems WIFF Protein Pilot 3 free trial none Protein Pilot
Applied Biosystems T2D Data Explorer none Data Explorer
Bruker Compass .d, YEP, BAF, FID distributed with ProteoWizard MSVC 2005 SP1 x86 redistributable NDA
Thermo Fisher RAW distributed with ProteoWizard none MSFileReader
Waters MassLynx .raw MassLynx none MassLynx


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