Review
Mascot Daemon is a client application which automates the submission of data files to Mascot server. It runs under Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, and 7.
Multiple Daemon clients can submit searches to a single Mascot server. If you have several mass spectrometers, you can install separate copies of Daemon on each instrument data system or just have a single copy of Daemon somewhere on the LAN marshalling searches for all instruments.
The functional unit of Mascot Daemon is a task, which is defined by the data source (a list of data files or a file path), how the data are to be searched, when the searches are to take place, and any follow-up activities, such as conditional repeat searches.
Search parameters are defined in the Parameter Editor, which closely resembles the HTML form used for interactive Mascot searches. Fields can also contain HTML-like tags which are automatically substituted at run time with information such as a file name or a sample description.
Every time a new task is run, it creates a task node on the status tree. The results from each task are attached to the task node, just like directories and sub-directories in Windows Explorer.
Key information for each result can be displayed by clicking on the result node. The full result report can be displayed in a web browser by clicking on the blue hyperlink. |
