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The exchange format  mzData has been developed in the context of the HUPO and PSI communities, and several conversion tools exist to create mzData from mass spectrometry instruments and other file formats.

The mzData Editor is designed to allow a research to open, edit, validate and save an mzData file a researcher has received either from his instrument, or somebody else. This is important to check foreign data files, or to complete a generated/exported file if some kinds of metadata are compulsory for deposition.

Prerequisites

The editor has been created as a Plugin for the eclipse framework and uses the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF). For a successful installation you need:

1. A java runtime environment, (Sun Java JRE and JDK 1.4.2 and 1.5.0 have been tested on Windows XP and Linux)
2. Version 3.1 or later of eclipse, either the runtime or the SDK (Versions 3.1 and 3.1.2 have been tested on Windows XP and Linux)
3. The eclipse modelling framework (Version 2.1.0, 2.1.1 or 2.1.2), again either the runtime or SDK. The XSD support is not neccessary.

Install all components and verify under Help->About Eclipse ->Plugins, that the EMF is installed correctly.

If you have success with a different configuration, we'd be glad to add them to our list of tested versions.

Installation:

Extract the content of the Mzdata-Editor.zip-File to your Eclipse
directory, such that the individual *.jar are in your plugins/
directory.

Restart Eclipse and verify that they have been loaded correctly and
show up in Help->About Eclipse->Plugins list.
Usage:

1. Start Eclipse, and go to your Workspace
2. Right-Click in Package Explorer -> New -> Other, and Select Simple/Project
3. In your Project: Right-Click -> New -> Other -> Example EMF Model Creation Wizard -> Mzdata Model
4. In the My.mzdata (or the name you chose) Model Right-Click to load a Resource (To load a Mzdata-XML-Resource from your filesystem, it is necessary that the XML-File ends on *.mzdata)
5. After loading the file you can navigate through the tree structure.
6. Right-Click on a tree object to ‘Show properties view, validate your Mzdata Object of add Sibling/Children to the Model.

Have Fun!

Download MzData Editor 1.0.1

Mzdata-Editor.zip