Msconvert Wine

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Proteowizard's msconvert utility is a must have tool for converting mass spectrometry data from almost any proprietary data format into open standards formats (primary mzML and mzXML). While this tool runs on both Windows and Linux, the ability to convert many common instrument formats under Linux is limited due to the need to have vendor specific libraries (dlls) installed. Fortunately it is possible to run the Windows version of msconvert under Linux using Wine, a open source compatibility layer for Windows -- though your mileage may vary.

The following are instructions on how to install and setup Wine under a variety of Linux platforms. These instructions where largely derived from several spctools-discuss emails and a large thanks goes out to the users who posted them (see references below).

1 Requirements
2 Instructions for Ubuntu
- 2.1 Issues/Problems
3 Instructions for CentOS
4 What Works?
5 How can I install windows applications to be shared by multiple users under wine?
6 References

Requirements

You will need to use wine in 32bit emulation mode (basically a 32bit wine even if you are on a 64bit architecture). This is because .Net and Visual Studio libraries are required and these libraries are installed using a 32bit installer, even for the 64 bit versions of these libraries. Please also be aware that not all proprietary vendor libraries that are distributed with ProtoWizard are 64 bit hence the 64 bit version of msconvert cannot be used to convert most proprietary files.

Instructions for Ubuntu

The following instructions where tested using ProteoWizard 2.1.2785 on a Ubuntu 11.10 'natty' Amazon Machine Image running Wine 1.2.2 (See http://cloud.ubuntu.com/ami/ for more AMI options).

Please read the notes regarding potential issues following these instructions before executing.

Connect to the system you want to install on. If using ssh use the -X option to ensure display forwarding is set since parts of the setup will prompt you with GUI dialogs asking you to accept licenses.
ssh -X root@system
Update/install rpms
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install wine cabextract
Use winetricks to install required Windows resources
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod 755 winetricks
./winetricks winxp
./winetricks vcrun2008
./winetricks dotnet35 Will install .Net 2.0 followed by 3.0 then 3.5, and the 3.5
Download and install Proteowizard
Go to http://proteowizard.sourceforge.net/ using a web browser. Click on the downloads link and select the Windows with vendor support option (not the 64 bit version as the required vendor libraries aren't 64 bit). Download the file with the tar.bz2 extension. Extract the package and move it to wherever you want to install it:

mkdir pwiz; tar xvf pwiz*.tar.bz2 -C pwiz

Issues/Problems

If you are trying to install on an Amazon EC2 instance winetricks may fail when trying to download and install vcrun2008 from Microsoft. From what I can tell Microsoft is blocking access from the Amazon Cloud. Just manually download the file from a different system (tip, use the wget command suggested by winetricks) and copy it to the EC2 instance.
If during the installation of .Net 3.0 it seems to hang, look in your "system tray" for the installer icon. This will be the final finish dialog that will need to be clicked through to end the installation.
Currently doesn't work for AB Sciex wiff files as there is a problem with the vendor libraries, wine, and possibly .Net 3.5. Trying to determine the exact nature of the problem but it doesn't look promising at the moment.
Lastly should be aware that using .Net 3.5 under wine is still experimental at this time and the installer may report that it failed. ProteoWizard elements that make use of this may not work correctly.

Instructions for CentOS

The following instructions where tested using ProteoWizard 2.1.2785 on a CentOS 5.5 Amazon Machine Image (ami-68f80f01). CentOS presents a bigger challenge, as you'll need the latest version of Wine and at the time these instructions where written none of the CentOS repositories contained pre-built rpms for it.

Upgrade your system if it hasn't already been
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
yum -y update
Install necessary packages for building and running wine
yum -y install xauth cabextract fontconfig gcc44 rpm-build
wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/h/project/hp/hphp/CentOS%205%2064bit/RPM/flex-2.5.35-7.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh flex*
Log out, then log back in and build wine (using -X)
CC=/usr/bin/gcc44
wget http://download.hostedgameservers.com/install-wine1.2.2.sh
chmod 777 install-wine1.2.2.sh
./install-wine1.2.2.sh
...And wait for a really really long time...
Run Steps 3 on from the ubtuntu section
Register the dll's
cd pwiz Or whichever directory you installed Proteowizard in
wine regsvr32 MSFileReader.XRawfile2.dll
wine regsvr32 CompassXtractMS.dll

What Works?

The following table shows the results of testing Wine/msconvert with the various different instrument formats available to us. For each format the instrument output was converted using the same version of msconvert installed on Windows 7 and Wine. The program readmzXML was then used to dump a summary of the resulting mzML file and the values compared between systems.

If you have any questions about the testing or have additional results to add please forward them to the spc-tools discussion mailing list.

Wine/msconvert Instrument Formats Tested
Vendor	Model	Acquisition Software	Output Type	Result	Notes
Applied Biosystems (ABSciex)	QQQ	Analyst	.wiff file	Fails	Requires .Net 3.5 which doesn't function under wine.
Agilent	QQQ	MassHunter 2.1	.d directory	Success
Agilent	QTOF	MassHunter 2.1	.d directory	Success
Bruker	Apex, MicrOTOF	?1	.baf file	Success
Waters	?	MassLynx 4.1	.raw directory	Success

How can I install windows applications to be shared by multiple users under wine?

Wine does not currently allow sharing its Windows root (or "prefix") between users, due to the risk of registry corruption from running multiple wineservers simultaneously ([bug #11112]). This means you typically would need to go through and install each set of Windows applications for each user. If you have a lot of users this could become burdensome, however you can create a single prefix and then copy it for each user. (The default wine prefix is ~/.wine). This saves having to run the same installation instructions for each user.

Another option is to write a wrapper script around the whole process. This wrapper script could copy a standardized wine prefix with all of the applications installed into a new temporary prefix owned by the user, set the environment variable WINEPREFIX to point to the temp prefix, run the wine command(s), stop the user's wine server, and then remove the temporary prefix.

One last item, be careful about using NFS with wine. If your home directory is mounted using NFS and shared across systems you could experience some problems running wine on multiple systems in parallel. More information about wine's "windows" partition and NFS:

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2010-July/076137.html