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IonMobilityBinning

Splits an mzML file with IonMobility frames into multiple mzML files by binning(merging) spectra by their IM values.

This tool supports two modes:

  • Regular ion mobility: Splits data into a user-defined number of bins
  • FAIMS: Automatically splits data by the FAIMS compensation voltages (CVs) present in the file

For regular ion mobility data:

  • Useful to convert IM data to a format that can be processed by tools that do not support IM data (e.g. FeatureFinderCentroided or SearchEngines)
  • The results of individual bins can be processed separately and then recombined afterwards
  • To decide on the number of bins, try running FileInfo on the input file to get an idea of the range of IM values present

For FAIMS data:

  • Automatically detects FAIMS compensation voltages in the input file
  • Creates one output file per unique CV value
  • MS2 spectra without explicit FAIMS CV are assigned to the preceding MS1 FAIMS CV
  • No binning parameters required as the splitting is based on the discrete CV values

The command line parameters of this tool are:

INI file documentation of this tool: