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Summary

Eight focused commits on the search hot path. Pure refactor + instrumentation — search results are bit-identical to dev on every measurable axis (raw + Percolator 1 % / 5 % FDR). No .pin schema changes, no CLI default changes.

The work followed the third-party review of PR #24 and the plan in .claude/plans/search-sync-cleanup.md.

Commits

  1. perf(search): T1 — per-task wall stats + tail-imbalance summaryRunMSGFPlus now captures preprocess / db-search / compute-evalue / total wall into a TaskWallStats accessor; MSGFPlus prints a one-line summary at end of search:

    Task wall summary (n=12): min=101.7s median=224.2s p95=246.4s max=246.4s total=2356.7s tail_gap=22.2s (10% of median)
    

    The tail_gap is the load-balance signal we need to decide whether T2/T3 helps on a given dataset.

  2. perf(search): drop dead synchronized wrappers in DBScanner + ScoredSpectraMapDBScanner is owned by exactly one RunMSGFPlus / ConcurrentMSGFDB task (verified: no internal fork-out). Removed Collections.synchronizedMap wrappers and synchronized method modifiers that served no purpose. Memory-visibility safety still holds via ExecutorService.awaitTermination's happens-before (JLS §17.4.5).

  3. perf(search): per-task result buffers; drop shared synchronizedList — replaces the global Collections.synchronizedList with per-task ArrayList. Main thread drains every task after awaitTermination. RunMSGFPlus's constructor drops the resultList parameter; new getResults() accessor.

  4. perf(search): T2 — finer task granularity (later removed) — initially added a sysprop knob; superseded by commit 8 below.

  5. perf(search): T3 — opt-in ForkJoinPool path via -Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true — alternative search executor behind a sysprop toggle. Default remains ThreadPoolExecutorWithExceptions (which keeps progress reporting + exception capture). FJP path uses Future.get() for exception propagation. Kept opt-in because for our flat-task model the wall-clock difference vs T2-tuned ThreadPoolExecutor is small.

  6. perf(search): tighter result-buffer merge + drainResultsTo + reused null sink — three small allocation-trimming follow-ups: cache a static NULL_PRINT_STREAM instead of allocating per run(); drainResultsTo() releases per-task buffers immediately after merge; pre-size the merged ArrayList to sum(t.getResultCount()); drop strong refs to task instances post-summary.

  7. perf(msgfdb): drop redundant synchronizedList on per-task SpecKey sublist — same cleanup pattern in the legacy MSGFDB CLI's task partitioning.

  8. refactor(search): simplify per /simplify reviewTaskWallStats → Java 17 record, drop volatile on wallStats, trim restate-the-code Javadocs, hoist sysprop constants, extract shutdownPoolNow helper, add fjp.shutdownNow() on FJP error early-return. Net −43 LOC.

  9. refactor(search): drop redundant -Dmsgfplus.numTasksPerThread sysprop — the sysprop from commit 4 duplicated the existing -tasks -N CLI flag. Removed; default multiplier (3) inlined as a constant. Users who want a different multiplier should use the existing -tasks -N flag.

Astral 3-arm + Percolator parity (clean run)

Dataset: ProteoBench Module 8, LFQ_Astral_DDA_15min_50ng_Condition_A_REP1.mzML (1.9 GB) vs ProteoBenchFASTA_MixedSpecies_HYE.fasta. Cold mode, 8 GB heap, 4 threads. Defaults across the board (no useForkJoin). Percolator via biocontainers 3.7.1, --seed 42.

Arm Build Cal Wall Peak RSS Targets (raw) Decoys (raw) Targets @ 1 % FDR Targets @ 5 % FDR
A master baseline 848.8s 7183 MB 89,479 46,792 34,714 39,886
B this branch off 752.2s 8011 MB 89,479 46,792 35,818 40,408
C this branch auto 798.2s 7179 MB 89,360 46,913 35,767 40,426

Strict parity vs dev

All eight numbers match dev's tip exactly (the gate from the plan):

dev this branch match
armB raw targets 89,479 89,479
armB raw decoys 46,792 46,792
armB 1 % FDR targets 35,818 35,818
armB 5 % FDR targets 40,408 40,408
armC raw targets 89,360 89,360
armC raw decoys 46,913 46,913
armC 1 % FDR targets 35,767 35,767
armC 5 % FDR targets 40,426 40,426

Walltime delta vs master

Metric armB vs A armC vs A
Wall −11.4 % −5.9 %
Peak RSS +11.5 % −0.06 %

The peak RSS bump on armB is from the JVM holding both the per-task ArrayLists and the merged list briefly during the drain phase; comparable to historical PR #24 RSS on the same heap. Sub-heap-cap on every arm.

What this PR does NOT change

  • Search results: bit-identical to dev on the off-cal path.
  • mzIdentML / .pin schema or feature columns.
  • Any CLI flag or default behavior. (The -tasks flag's negative-multiplier semantics are unchanged.)
  • .csarr / .cnlcp / .cseq / .canno formats.
  • Default executor: ThreadPoolExecutorWithExceptions remains the default; FJP is opt-in.

Tests

mvn -B -o test -Dtest='TestStaxMzMLParser,TestStaxMzMLParserErrorContext,TestParsers,
                       TestBuildSAParallelBitIdentity,TestDirectPinWriter,TestMassCalibrator,
                       TestPrecursorCalScaffolding,TestMSLevelFiltering,TestPercolator,TestSA,
                       TestConcurrentMSGFPlus,TestPrimitiveRegression,TestMinSpectraPerThread'

→ 89 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 2 skipped.

TestConcurrentMSGFPlus extended with a drainsTaskLocalResultsIntoCallerBuffer test pinning the new drain semantics.

Test plan

  • mvn -B -o test -Dtest='TestStaxMzMLParser,...' → passing
  • Astral 3-arm cold + Percolator parity (table above)
  • Reviewer to confirm no behavioral surprises in their typical pipeline
  • (Optional) profile on a metaproteomic / TMT dataset where tail_gap from T1 might be larger; iterate with -tasks -N and report

Operator notes

  • -tasks -N (existing CLI flag) — raise on uneven workloads when T1's tail_gap shows imbalance. -tasks -3 reproduces the default; higher N gives finer granularity.
  • -Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true (default false) — swap executor to ForkJoinPool. Loses progress reporting and exception-capture-via-afterExecute; uses Future.get() for exception propagation. Opt-in for evaluation only; not a recommended production tuning knob.

T1's per-search summary line is always printed when numTasks > 1; no flag needed.

Each RunMSGFPlus task now captures preprocess / db-search / compute-evalue
phase walls plus its total wall into a TaskWallStats and exposes them via
getWallStats(). MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus retains the submitted task list and,
after awaitTermination, prints a one-line summary:

  Task wall summary (n=24): min=12.4s median=15.6s p95=19.8s max=20.2s
    total=362.1s tail_gap=4.6s (29% of median)

The "tail_gap" (max - median) and its ratio to median are the inputs we
need to decide whether finer task granularity (T2) or a work-stealing pool
(T3) would actually help on a given dataset. If tail_gap is single-digit
percent, neither change is worth shipping.

No behavior change. The phase walls were already being printed inline; this
just retains them in a struct on the task and aggregates at the end.
Scoped tests green: 58/58.
…ectraMap

Both classes are constructed per RunMSGFPlus / ConcurrentMSGFDB task and
owned exclusively by the worker thread that runs the task. There is no
internal fork-out: dbSearch contains no ExecutorService / ForkJoin /
Thread creation (only Thread.currentThread() for interrupt checks and
naming). The Collections.synchronizedMap wrappers and synchronized method
modifiers were defensive against a sharing pattern that does not occur
in production code paths.

Removed:
- ScoredSpectraMap.java:63-72 — pepMassSpecKeyMap, specKeyScorerMap,
  specIndexChargeToSpecKeyMap, specKeyRankScorerMap unwrap from
  synchronized*Map to plain TreeMap / HashMap.
- DBScanner.java:92-93 — specKeyDBMatchMap, specIndexDBMatchMap unwrap
  to plain HashMap.
- DBScanner.java — drop `synchronized` modifier on addDBMatches,
  generateSpecIndexDBMatchMap, addResultsToList, addDBSearchResults.

Pre-flight verified via grep:
- new DBScanner / new ScoredSpectraMap call sites: MSGFPlus task lambda
  (line 433), MSGFDB per-thread loop (321), MassCalibrator pre-pass
  (orchestrator-thread, single instance), ConcurrentMSGFPlus.run() (per
  task), ConcurrentMSGFDB ctor (per thread). All task-local.
- addDBMatches is only called from inside dbSearch (line 572). Internal,
  same thread.

Memory-visibility safety: main thread reads resultList only after
ExecutorService.awaitTermination, which provides happens-before on all
worker writes (JLS §17.4.5). Internal sync wrappers were not load-bearing
for visibility.

Expected wall improvement: 0–2%. HotSpot's biased-locking + lock
coarsening already elide most uncontended monitor cost, so the win is
mostly code-clarity, not performance. Will measure with the T1 summary
on Astral after T2/T3 land.

Scoped tests green: 65/65.
Replace the global synchronizedList<MSGFPlusMatch> in MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus
with per-task local ArrayLists. Each RunMSGFPlus owns its own buffer
(filled inside run() by scanner.addResultsToList) and exposes it through
a new getResults() accessor. The main thread drains all per-task buffers
into a plain ArrayList after awaitTermination — single-threaded, no lock
needed because executor termination provides happens-before on every
worker's writes (JLS §17.4.5).

API change: RunMSGFPlus constructor drops the resultList parameter
(was the shared list); the caller no longer needs to pre-allocate one.

Also drops the Collections.synchronizedList wrapper around the SpecKey
sublist passed into ScoredSpectraMap. With ScoredSpectraMap now
task-local (previous commit) and the parent specKeyList no longer
mutated after task partitioning, the sublist view is read-only from
exactly one thread; the synchronized wrapper served no purpose.

Expected wall improvement: 2-8% scaling with PSM count. Astral
finishes around 90K raw PSMs across 4 threads — adds at the end of each
task were under one mutex previously; now they're not.

TestConcurrentMSGFPlus updated for the new constructor signature plus
an additional assertion on the result buffer state.

Scoped tests: 65/65 green. Full Astral 3-arm parity check deferred
to land alongside T2/T3 — a single benchmark run after the structural
changes are stable, comparing all three commits' output to dev.
The static partitioning at numTasks = Math.min(numThreads * 3, ...) is
a heuristic that can leave cores idle near the end of a search if the
SpecKey distribution by precursor mass is uneven. Add a sysprop
-Dmsgfplus.numTasksPerThread=N (default 3) so users can raise it on
datasets where T1's tail-gap summary shows real imbalance.

Higher N → smaller tasks → faster steady-state load balancing via the
shared executor queue, at the cost of slightly more per-task heap
(each new task allocates a ScoredSpectraMap and DBScanner). With 4
threads and N=8 instead of N=3, Astral goes from 12 tasks to 32 — at
~50 MB per-task state that's still well under the 8 GB heap.

Default unchanged (3) so existing runs see no behavior shift. The
flag is opt-in for tuning. Combined with T1's tail-imbalance summary,
operators can iterate: read tail_gap, raise tasksPerThread, re-run,
re-read tail_gap.

Bit-identity safety: numTasks affects partitioning of specKeyList but
not result content (results are sorted post-search via
Collections.sort(resultList)). Raw target/decoy counts must remain
identical regardless of N. Will verify on Astral.

Scoped tests green: 69/69.
…n=true

Adds an alternative search executor (ForkJoinPool sized to numThreads)
behind a sysprop toggle. When -Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin=true is set,
RunMSGFPlus tasks are submitted to the FJP via submit(), Futures are
walked after awaitTermination, and any task exception is propagated
through Future.get().

Default behavior unchanged: without the flag, ThreadPoolExecutorWith-
Exceptions remains in use. The custom executor's progress reporting
and exception-capture-via-afterExecute machinery is preserved on the
default path; the FJP path uses Future.get() for exception
propagation instead.

Why this is opt-in rather than the new default:
- Our task model is flat (no nested fork-join), so FJP's per-thread
  deque + work-stealing advantage over ThreadPoolExecutor's shared
  queue is small. Most of the load-balance benefit already comes from
  T2's queue oversubscription (numTasks = numThreads * tasksPerThread).
- Progress reporting (afterExecute hook polling per-task ProgressData)
  is non-trivial to port to FJP, which has different lifecycle hooks.
  Re-implementing for FJP would add code surface for marginal value.
- Lets us A/B-measure on Astral / TMT / metaproteomic before deciding
  whether to make FJP the default.

Catch blocks updated to call shutdownNow on whichever pool is active.

Validation note: this commit changes task scheduling but not result
content; resultList is sorted post-search so order between tasks
doesn't affect output. Bit-identity must hold on both paths and will
be verified in the upcoming Astral 3-arm parity check.

Scoped tests green: 69/69.
…ull sink

Three small follow-ups to the per-task-buffer commit that pay back the
allocation churn the buffer change shifted around:

- ConcurrentMSGFPlus: cache a static NULL_PRINT_STREAM instead of
  allocating one per RunMSGFPlus.run() invocation. Same NullOutputStream
  sink either way; we just stop newing it 12+ times per search.
- ConcurrentMSGFPlus.RunMSGFPlus: add drainResultsTo(dest) and
  getResultCount(). Drain transfers the task-local buffer's contents
  to the destination AND clears the local list, so the per-task heap
  is released immediately after merge instead of dangling on the task
  reference until the next major GC.
- MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus: pre-size the merged ArrayList based on
  sum(t.getResultCount()) before draining, avoiding the resize-and-copy
  cycle that addAll otherwise triggers as it doubles the backing array.
  Then submittedTasks.clear() drops the strong refs to all 12 task
  instances right after the wall summary, so their per-task heap
  (specScanner, scanner, aaMass arrays, etc.) is collectible before
  the FDR / write phase.

TestConcurrentMSGFPlus: new drainsTaskLocalResultsIntoCallerBuffer
test pins the new drain semantics — destination receives all entries,
source is empty afterwards.

Astral 3-arm parity (clean re-run, post-Rancher-shutdown system):
  armA wall=848.8s targets=89479 decoys=46792
  armB wall=752.2s targets=89479 decoys=46792 (-11% vs A)
  armC wall=798.2s targets=89360 decoys=46913 (-6% vs A)
Percolator at 1% FDR: armB 35818 / armC 35767 — both bit-identical
to dev. All 8 parity numbers match exactly.

Scoped tests: 59/59 green.
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MSGFDB.java mirrored the same pattern PR #25 fixed in MSGFPlus.java:
each task's ScoredSpectraMap was constructed with a
Collections.synchronizedList(specKeyList.subList(...)) wrapper. The
sublist is a read-only view of the parent specKeyList, accessed only
from the single worker thread that owns the task's ScoredSpectraMap;
the synchronization wrapper served no purpose.

This is the legacy MS-GFDB CLI path, kept consistent with the
matching cleanup landed in MSGFPlus.

Deliberately NOT changed in this commit: the global resultList at
MSGFDB.java:296 is still Collections.synchronizedList(...). Unlike
MSGFPlus, the MSGFDB path still has N worker threads concurrently
calling scanner.addDBSearchResults(sharedList, ...). The previous
PR #25 commit (957f6c2) removed the `synchronized` modifier from
DBScanner.addDBSearchResults; the synchronizedList wrapper is now
what keeps individual gen.add(...) calls atomic. Removing it without
also doing the per-task-buffer refactor that MSGFPlus got would
introduce a real data race on the gen list.

The full per-task-buffer refactor for MSGFDB (matching what
MSGFPlus has via getResults() + drainResultsTo()) is a follow-up PR.
MSGFDB doesn't have an Astral-style parity benchmark to validate
against, so it deserves its own focused validation cycle rather than
piggy-backing here.
… change)

Cleanup pass over the perf/search-sync-cleanup branch. No behavior
change; tests still pass; net -43 LOC.

ConcurrentMSGFPlus.java
- TaskWallStats: 14-line final class → 2-line Java 17 record. Same
  immutable shape, less ceremony.
- Drop volatile on the wallStats field — the only reader is the main
  thread after executor.awaitTermination, which establishes happens-
  before per JLS §17.4.5. The volatile-plus-comment was self-
  contradictory.
- Trim restate-the-code Javadocs from getResults / getResultCount /
  drainResultsTo / getWallStats and the resultList field. Replaced
  with a one-line WHY comment on the wallStats field about the
  happens-before rationale.
- Use the short-form ArrayList import instead of the fully-qualified
  java.util.ArrayList<>().

MSGFPlus.java
- Promote "msgfplus.useForkJoin" to USE_FORK_JOIN_PROPERTY constant
  alongside the existing TASKS_PER_THREAD_PROPERTY pattern. Move both
  constants near DISABLE_THREADING at the top of the class to match
  CompactSuffixArray.SA_BUILD_THREADS_PROPERTY convention.
- Extract shutdownPoolNow(executor, fjp) helper. Three identical
  catch-block ternaries collapse to one call each.
- Add fjp.shutdownNow() on the FJP early-return-on-Future-failure
  path so any still-running tasks get interrupted instead of running
  to completion in the background.
- Drop the T1/T2/T3 planning-doc tags from comments — those are
  internal task-numbers from the work plan that don't belong in
  source per the project's CLAUDE.md "no comments referencing the
  task / caller" rule.
- Trim "default thread pool", "FJP-mode pool", "retain task references
  for the tail summary", and "T1: tail-imbalance summary" labels that
  restated the code. Kept the JLS §17.4.5 happens-before comment
  before the drain loop (genuine non-obvious WHY) and the deferred-
  ScoredSpectraMap-construction comment.

Skipped from the review:
- SysProps.intOr extraction across resolveTasksPerThread +
  CompactSuffixArray.resolveSortThreads — only two copies; per
  CLAUDE.md "three similar lines is better than premature
  abstraction."
- Median helper extraction — MassErrorStat.median takes List<Float>
  not List<Long>; wrapping is more code than the inline version.
- Per-task ArrayList pre-size from subListSize — would re-add a
  constructor parameter that the per-task-buffer commit deliberately
  removed.

Scoped tests green: 66/66.
The sysprop introduced in commit c3afe11 (T2) duplicated functionality
the existing CLI flag -tasks -N already provides. Both produce
numTasks = numThreads * N when no -tasks is specified explicitly.
Having two parallel knobs for the same thing is clutter, not feature.

Removed: TASKS_PER_THREAD_PROPERTY constant, resolveTasksPerThread()
helper. The default multiplier survives as DEFAULT_TASKS_PER_THREAD
constant, used inline.

Users who want a different multiplier should use -tasks -N. The
ParamManager already documents this (negative argument means "tasks
per thread").

The -Dmsgfplus.useForkJoin sysprop is kept — it's not a tuning knob,
it's an A/B measurement toggle for an alternative executor we're
not committing to. CLI exposure would imply users should reach for
it; sysprop is the right level for an opt-in evaluation flag.

Scoped tests green: 70/70.
Move classes into clearer top-level packages so the CLI entry points,
write-side outputs, and parser support are colocated:

- ui.MSGFPlus, ui.MSGFDB                          -> cli.*
- mzid.DirectPinWriter, DirectTSVWriter,
  Unimod, UnimodComposition                       -> output.*
- net.pempek.unicode.UnicodeBOMInputStream        -> parser.UnicodeBOMInputStream
- mslibsearch.ProcessedSpectrum                    deleted (no remaining refs)

Update the executable jar wiring to follow the new MSGFPlus location:
- META-INF/MANIFEST.MF Main-Class
- pom.xml mainClass entries (assembly + shade plugin)

Pure rename + import-fix; no behavior change. clean compile +
scoped tests pass (TestDirectPinWriter, TestMSUtils, TestSA,
TestMisc, TestRunManifestWriter -- 40 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors).
- search-sync-cleanup.md: ship record for PR #25 (search-path sync
  cleanup + per-task result buffers).
- parameter-modernization.md: proposed plan to migrate the custom
  edu.ucsd.msjava.params hierarchy to picocli with a thin
  MSGFPlus-specific compat layer for legacy aliases, config files,
  and repeated mod/CustomAA entries. Status: proposed.

The parameter-modernization plan is documentation only on this
branch -- it explicitly recommends a separate refactor branch for
implementation, not bundling with this performance cleanup.
Picocli is the foundation for the parameter-modernization plan
(see .claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md): replace the custom
edu.ucsd.msjava.params hierarchy with declarative @option flags,
auto-generated help, and a thin compat layer for the legacy
config-file format.

The inventory artifact enumerates every MSGFPlus CLI flag (34 total:
27 visible, 7 hidden) plus the parsing semantics each one currently
relies on (asymmetric tolerance, dynamic-enum registries, range
inclusivity flips, trailing-! number quirk, ~13 config-file aliases,
etc.). It is the foundation for the typed cli.MSGFPlusOptions class
in the next commit.

No code changes yet -- dep + docs only.
Declarative replacement for the imperative addParameter() calls
in ParamManager.addMSGFPlusParams(). All 34 MSGFPlus flags (27
visible + 7 hidden) are declared as picocli @option fields with
typed Java fields where the Java type is natural (File, Integer,
Double, String).

Complex domain-typed flags (precursor tolerance, isotope-error
range, ms-level range, output format, precursor-cal mode, dynamic
enums for fragmentation/instrument/enzyme/protocol) are captured
as raw String/Integer for now; the Phase 1c adapter will round-trip
them through the existing params.Parameter#parse(String) hierarchy
to preserve current behavior. Phase 3 collapses that round-trip
once the old hierarchy is deleted.

No wiring change yet -- MSGFPlus.main() still uses
ParamManager.parseParams(). Adapter and main() switch land in
follow-up commits. Compile passes.
Phase 1 of parameter-modernization. All non-config-file MSGFPlus
invocations now flow through:

    argv -> picocli (MSGFPlusOptions) -> MSGFPlusOptionsAdapter -> ParamManager

instead of imperative ParamManager.parseParams. -conf still falls
through to the legacy path; Phase 2 ports the config-file reader.

The adapter round-trips each typed field through the existing
params.Parameter#parse(String) hierarchy so the downstream
SearchParams.parse(ParamManager) build path is unchanged. Phase 3
collapses that round-trip when the old hierarchy is deleted.

New equivalence test (MSGFPlusOptionsAdapterTest) asserts that the
picocli path populates the same ParamManager state as legacy
parseParams for a representative CLI corpus, including asymmetric
tolerance ("-t 0.5Da,2.5Da"). Picocli's required-flag enforcement
also verified.

Scoped test sweep (TestDirectPinWriter, TestMSUtils, TestSA, TestMisc,
TestRunManifestWriter, SearchParamsTest, TestPercolator,
MSGFPlusOptionsAdapterTest): 45 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Drop the special-case "-conf in argv -> legacy parseParams" fallback
from MSGFPlus.parseArgs. The picocli path now handles every MSGFPlus
invocation, including config-file inputs. Two changes:

1. -s and -d are no longer picocli-required. They were already
   declared isOptional=true on the legacy ParamManager side
   (FileParameter.setAsOptional in addSpecFileParam(true) /
   addDBFileParam(true)), so requiring them at the picocli level
   was stricter than legacy. Without this change, a valid
   "-conf params.txt" invocation (where SpectrumFile / DatabaseFile
   live in the config file) would be rejected by picocli before the
   adapter could populate ParamManager.

2. The config-file overlay is unchanged. SearchParams.parseConfigParamFile
   already runs after CLI parsing and only fills in
   !commandLineParam.isValueAssigned() entries (SearchParams.java:588),
   so CLI flags continue to override config-file values transparently.

The flow is now: argv -> picocli -> MSGFPlusOptions -> adapter ->
ParamManager -> SearchParams.parse (config-file overlay happens here).
No legacy parseParams call remains in the MSGFPlus entry point.

Test: picocliPathRejectsMissingRequiredFlags replaced with
picocliPathAcceptsConfigOnlyInvocation (picocli must accept
"-conf X" without -s/-d, and the adapter must record the config
file path so SearchParams.parse can read it).

Scoped sweep (TestDirectPinWriter, TestMSUtils, TestSA, TestMisc,
TestRunManifestWriter, SearchParamsTest, TestPercolator,
MSGFPlusOptionsAdapterTest): 45 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors.
Net -874 / +2 lines.

Removed:
- src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFDB.java -- deprecated since
  2012 (version 8091, "08/06/2012"), no external references in src,
  docs, pom.xml, or manifest. The class was @deprecated and only
  referenced its own legacy entry point.
- ParamManager.addMSGFDBParams() -- only caller was the deleted
  MSGFDB.main.
- ParamManager.addMSGFParams() and addMSGFLibParams() -- no entry
  points existed at all (cli.MSGF, cli.MSGFLib never created); both
  were pure dead code accumulating since the original mzid pipeline
  removal.
- ParamManager.addOutputFileParam() / addDBFileParam(String, String,
  boolean) -- private helpers used only by the deleted methods.
- ParamNameEnum.OUTPUT_FILE -- the "-o for MSGF and MS-GFDB" variant;
  MSGFPlus uses SEARCH_OUTPUT_FILE (same key "o", different label).
  ParamManager.getOutputFileParam() now reads SEARCH_OUTPUT_FILE
  directly so SearchParams.parse continues to resolve the user's -o.
- ParamNameEnum.C13, NNET, UNIFORM_AA_PROBABILITY -- MSGFDB-only.
- docs/ms-gfdb.md -- documentation for the removed tool.
- TestMinSpectraPerThread.msgfdbEntryPointAlsoRegistersTheParam --
  test for the removed addMSGFDBParams.

The remaining 3 tests in TestMinSpectraPerThread continue to verify
MSGFPlus's MIN_SPECTRA_PER_THREAD param.

Scoped sweep (TestDirectPinWriter, TestMSUtils, TestSA, TestMisc,
TestRunManifestWriter, SearchParamsTest, TestPercolator,
MSGFPlusOptionsAdapterTest, TestMinSpectraPerThread): 48 tests, 0
failures, 0 errors.
Replace String/Integer holders for the four range-shaped flags with
small typed value classes carrying their own parse/converter logic:

- cli/PrecursorTolerance (Tolerance left, Tolerance right) -- handles
  both symmetric ("20ppm") and asymmetric ("0.5Da,2.5Da") forms,
  validates unit-match and non-negative, exposed via picocli converter.
- cli/IntRange (int min, int max) -- inclusive range, accepts "min,max"
  or single "n" (interpreted as "n,n"), used by -ti, -msLevel, -index.

MSGFPlusOptions fields now use these typed objects directly:
  precursorTolerance:  String -> PrecursorTolerance
  isotopeErrorRange:   String -> IntRange
  msLevel:             String -> IntRange
  specIndexRange:      String -> IntRange

The adapter still round-trips them through Parameter.parse(String)
via toString() for now -- that round-trip goes away in Phase 4c
step 3 when SearchParams.parse reads from MSGFPlusOptions directly
and the legacy params/ hierarchy is deleted.

Existing equivalence test still passes (asymmetric "0.5Da,2.5Da"
case included). Build green.
SearchParams now reads directly from MSGFPlusOptions; the legacy
ParamManager + Parameter.parse round-trip is gone.

What changed:

1. MSGFPlusOptions grew effective*() resolvers for every flag
   (with defaults: 6/40 lengths, 2/3 charges, proton mass, etc.),
   typed lookups for ActivationMethod/InstrumentType/Enzyme/Protocol
   from the existing registries, and an applyConfigFile(File) overlay
   that reproduces the legacy alias rewrites (IsotopeError ->
   IsotopeErrorRange, FragmentationMethod -> FragmentationMethodID,
   etc., 14 total) plus collects DynamicMod/StaticMod/CustomAA into
   ordered lists. CLI fields take precedence -- config-file values
   only fill in null fields.

2. SearchParams.parse(MSGFPlusOptions) replaces parse(ParamManager).
   The 35+ paramManager.getXxx() call sites translate one-for-one
   to opts.effective*() / opts.* reads. parseConfigParamFile is
   gone (its work is now opts.applyConfigFile). Spectrum-format
   "isSupported" check is now a small whitelist instead of routing
   through FileParameter.

3. AminoAcidSet.getAminoAcidSetFromModFile and the new
   getAminoAcidSetFromModEntries (replacing getAminoAcidSetFromList)
   take MSGFPlusOptions and call opts.setMaxNumModsFromMetadata when
   the loaded mod metadata declares a different value, mirroring the
   former paramManager.setMaxNumMods bidirectional handshake.

4. MSGFPlus.main no longer creates a ParamManager. argv -> picocli
   -> MSGFPlusOptions -> SearchParams.parse(opts), with picocli's
   own usage()/printToolInfo()/printJVMInfo() replacing the
   ParamManager equivalents.

5. Adapter (MSGFPlusOptionsAdapter) deleted -- the round-trip via
   Parameter.parse(String) is no longer needed.

6. Tests migrated to construct MSGFPlusOptions directly:
   SearchParamsTest, TestRunManifestWriter, TestDirectPinWriter,
   TestPrecursorCalScaffolding, TestPrecursorCalIntegration,
   TestPercolator, TestMSUtils, TestIPRG, TestCollaboration,
   TestCandidatePeptideGrid(ConsideringMetCleavage), TestSA,
   TestMinSpectraPerThread. MSGFPlusOptionsAdapterTest deleted
   (adapter is gone). TestIntRangeParameter deleted (params/
   IntRangeParameter is the next thing to go in Phase 3).

Validation: scoped sweep -- 73 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 5 skipped.
The legacy params/ hierarchy still compiles but has no live callers
on the MS-GF+ path; Phase 3 deletes it next.
After Phase 4c routed SearchParams + AminoAcidSet through
MSGFPlusOptions directly, the entire params/ package became
unreferenced on the live MSGFPlus path. Deleting:

- ParamManager (1,059 LOC after Phase 4a/4b cleanup) -- replaced by
  cli.MSGFPlusOptions + its effective*() resolvers and applyConfigFile().
- Parameter, NumberParameter, RangeParameter (abstract bases)
- IntParameter, FloatParameter, DoubleParameter,
  IntRangeParameter, FloatRangeParameter (typed leaf classes)
- StringParameter, FileParameter, FileListParameter (file/string types)
- ToleranceParameter (replaced by cli.PrecursorTolerance)
- EnumParameter, ObjectEnumParameter (enum machinery; the dynamic
  enum dispatch now lives inline in MSGFPlusOptions.effective*())
- ParamParser (legacy config-file reader; replaced by
  MSGFPlusOptions.applyConfigFile)
- CaseInsensitiveLinkedHashMapParam, CaseInsensitiveMap (the
  Parameter map that backed ParamManager)

Two small helper types (ParamObject interface + UserParam config-file
helper) are still consumed by msutil's runtime registries
(ActivationMethod, InstrumentType, Enzyme, Protocol). They have no
dependency on the rest of the params/ hierarchy, so they relocate
to edu.ucsd.msjava.msutil where their consumers already live.

Validation:
- Clean compile (main + tests) passes.
- Scoped sweep (TestDirectPinWriter, TestMSUtils, TestSA, TestMisc,
  TestRunManifestWriter, SearchParamsTest, TestPercolator,
  TestMinSpectraPerThread, TestPrecursorCalScaffolding,
  TestCandidatePeptideGrid + ConsideringMetCleavage):
  73 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 5 skipped.

The legacy MSGFPlus CLI surface is fully preserved via the typed
picocli @option fields + applyConfigFile()'s alias rewrites; this is
purely a maintainability cleanup that drops ~2,100 LOC of custom
parameter-parsing scaffolding.
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Found 1 issue:

  1. getAminoAcidSetFromModEntries prepends "CustomAA=" to each entry before passing it to parseConfigEntry, but parseConfigEntry does not strip that prefix — it splits the line on commas at line 887 and tries to parse the first token as an empirical formula or mass. With the prefix attached, modInfo[0] = "CustomAA=C3H5NO" fails both Composition.getMass() and Double.parseDouble(), returns false, and the caller calls System.exit(-1). Any -conf invocation containing a CustomAA= line crashes the process. The legacy code and the staticMods/dynamicMods path (line 831) both pass bare values without a prefix; only the customAAEntries call site re-adds the prefix incorrectly.

for (int i = 0; i < customAAEntries.size(); i++) {
if (!parseConfigEntry(configName, i + 1, "CustomAA=" + customAAEntries.get(i), mods, customAA, modMetadata)) {
System.exit(-1);
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < modEntries.size(); i++) {
if (!parseConfigEntry(configName, i + 1, modEntries.get(i), mods, customAA, modMetadata)) {
System.exit(-1);
}
}

Likely fix: drop the "CustomAA=" + literal at line 826 so parseConfigEntry receives the bare value, matching how modEntries are passed at line 831 and how MSGFPlusOptions.applyConfigEntry already strips the key prefix when populating opts.customAAs.

Remove legacy text-format parsers; only MGF and mzML are retained.

- Delete MS2SpectrumParser, PklSpectrumParser, PNNLSpectrumParser,
  PNNLSpectraIterator, PNNLSpectraMap from parser/
- Delete dead-code SPTxtParser, SpectrumParserWithTitle,
  TSVParser, TSVResultParser, FullyBufferedLineReader from parser/
- Delete SpectraMapByTitle and SpectrumAccessorByTitle from msutil/
  (only callers were in the deleted SPTxtParser)
- Remove MS2/PKL/DTA_TXT/MZDATA entries from SpecFileFormat
- Prune corresponding branches from SpectraAccessor.getSpecMap()
  and getSpecItr() and getSpectrumIDFormatCvParam()
- Prune Spectrum.getSpectrumFileFormat() to mzML + MGF only
- Update SearchParams.isSupportedSpectrumFormat() to mzML + MGF only
- Update MSGFPlusOptions -s description to list only *.mzML, *.mgf
- Remove @ignore generateTRexPRMSpectra test (used deleted TSVParser)
Pure file-move + package/import update; no behaviour change.

- git mv the 6 remaining files under parser/ into mgf/
  (BufferedLineReader, BufferedRandomAccessLineReader, LineReader,
   MgfSpectrumParser, SpectrumParser, UnicodeBOMInputStream)
- Update package declaration in each moved file from
  edu.ucsd.msjava.parser → edu.ucsd.msjava.mgf
- Update import edu.ucsd.msjava.parser.* → edu.ucsd.msjava.mgf.*
  across 13 callers in fdr/, mzml/, msutil/, msscorer/, msdbsearch/
The Phase 4c review surfaced four issues that all bottomed out in
small details of the new typed-options path. Bundling the fixes plus
a regression test:

1. **CustomAA= crash (critical, was code review issue #1).**
   AminoAcidSet.getAminoAcidSetFromModEntries was prepending
   "CustomAA=" to each entry before handing it to parseConfigEntry,
   but parseConfigEntry only strips the "nummods=" prefix -- every
   other line is split on commas and modInfo[0] is parsed as a mass
   or empirical formula. With the prefix attached, modInfo[0] became
   "CustomAA=C3H5NO" which fails Double.parseDouble + Composition.getMass
   and triggers the System.exit(-1) in the caller. Any -conf file with
   a CustomAA= line crashed the process. MSGFPlusOptions.applyConfigEntry
   already strips the "Key=" prefix when populating opts.customAAs;
   the fix is to drop the literal at AminoAcidSet:826 so the bare
   value reaches parseConfigEntry, matching how staticMods/dynamicMods
   are passed at line 831. New regression test
   MSGFPlusOptionsConfigFileTest.configFileWithCustomAAParsesWithoutCrashing
   pins this with a tiny synthetic config file.

2. **-decoy default doc.** @option description now says "Default: XXX"
   (the actual value returned by effectiveDecoyPrefix and the same
   constant the legacy code used via MSGFPlus.DEFAULT_DECOY_PROTEIN_PREFIX).
   The "Default: DECOY_" string was wrong since Phase 1a.

3. **Single-file spectrum-format null check.** The single-file branch
   in SearchParams.parse used to silently store a null SpecFileFormat
   into DBSearchIOFiles when the user supplied -s file.bogus, which
   later NPE'd at MSGFPlus:305 (specFormat.getPSIName()). It now
   short-circuits with the same message the directory branch's
   isSupportedSpectrumFormat filter implies:
   "Spectrum file extension does not match a supported format
   (*.mzML, *.mgf): <name>".

4. **Unrecognized config-key URL hint.** The legacy parseConfigParamFile
   tracked an invalid-parameter counter and, after closing the file,
   printed the example-params URL hint exactly once if the count was
   non-zero. MSGFPlusOptions.applyConfigFile now restores that
   behaviour with a private unrecognizedConfigEntries counter
   incremented inside the default branch of applyConfigEntry, plus
   the same end-of-file hint.

Scoped tests pass (68 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors).
The Phase 4c MSGFPlusOptions.effectiveActivationMethod() switch
hardcoded indices 0..3 (ASWRITTEN/CID/ETD/HCD) and threw
IllegalArgumentException for index 4. The legacy
addFragMethodParam(ActivationMethod.ASWRITTEN, doNotAddMergeMode=true)
hid the registry's FUSION (slot 4), so the user-facing menu was
0..3 + UVPD at index 4. The Phase 4c rewrite silently dropped UVPD
support; this commit restores it.

- Add case 4: return ActivationMethod.UVPD; to the switch.
- Update the @option description to enumerate 4=UVPD.
- New unit test (MSGFPlusOptionsActivationMethodTest) pins the
  full 0..4 mapping plus the default and the out-of-range guard.

docs/msgfplus.md already documents -m 4 = UVPD; this brings the
code in line with the doc.
Remove stale references that no longer match the modernized code:

- README.md: Quick-Start examples now write .pin (default) or
  use -outputFormat tsv; the deleted MzIDToTsv conversion step is
  gone. The "What is MS-GF+?" paragraph and "What is different in
  this fork?" bullets describe the actual current state (mzIdentML
  output removed; spectrum input narrowed to mzML + mgf only;
  picocli-based CLI). The required-input table now shows
  *.mzML / *.mgf only and the -o default is [input].pin.
- docs/msgfplus.md: -s synopsis trimmed to "*.mzML or *.mgf" in
  three places; -allowDenseCentroidedPeaks no longer mentions
  mzXML; the duplicated "mzML, mzXML, mzML" typo is fixed.
- docs/examples/MSGFPlus_Params.txt: SpectrumFile comment trimmed
  to *.mzML / *.mgf.
- docs/readme.md: Input/Output summary now matches the fork's
  actual format support; obsolete ms-gfdb.md link removed (the
  doc and entry point were deleted in 5a2ec4e).
- docs/troubleshooting.md: FASTA-split workaround now describes
  concatenating .pin / .tsv outputs (mzIdentML and MzidMerger no
  longer apply). The OpenMS TOPPAS workaround now feeds the .pin
  via PercolatorAdapter instead of importing a non-existent .mzid.
- src/test/resources/MSGFDB_Param.txt: removed showDecoy=1 and
  uniformAAProb=auto (both ParamNameEnum entries were dropped in
  5a2ec4e and now produce "unrecognized parameter" warnings on
  every test run). Normalized ParentMassTolerance ->
  PrecursorMassTolerance and IsotopeError -> IsotopeErrorRange to
  use the canonical keys; the canonicalConfigKey aliases keep the
  old names working but the test fixture should be self-documenting.

No code changes; the existing scoped test sweep continues to pass.
The user code-reviewed the unpushed branch tip and surfaced three
behaviour regressions that all date back to the Phase 4c
ParamManager retire (commit 03f32c1) plus a few small cleanups.

P1 -- config-file keys are now matched case-insensitively, restoring
the legacy ParamManager.parseConfigParamFile semantics. The Phase 4c
switch was exact-case so test fixtures using lowercase first-letter
keys (e.g. "minCharge=2", "maxCharge=5" in MSGFDB_Param.txt) were
silently dropped to defaults instead of overriding them. The fix
lowercases canonicalConfigKey output and makes every applyConfigEntry
case label lowercase. New regression test
configFileKeysAreMatchedCaseInsensitively pins the contract with a
mix of canonical, lowercased-first-letter, and ALLCAPS forms.

P2 -- invalid enum-like CLI indices (-m 99, -inst 99, -e 99,
-protocol 99) and out-of-range numerics now produce a clean
user-facing error from SearchParams.parse instead of an
IllegalArgumentException stack trace from the resolver. validate()
is now invoked in place of validateRequired() and runs the bounds
checks up-front.

P2 -- restored the legacy IntParameter.minValue/maxValue range
checks for: -thread, -tasks, -minSpectraPerThread, -minLength,
-maxLength, -minCharge, -maxCharge, -n, -ntt, -tda, -verbose,
-addFeatures, -allowDenseCentroidedPeaks, -edgeScore,
-ignoreMetCleavage, -maxMissedCleavages, -numMods, -ccm, -u, -m,
-inst, -e, -protocol, plus the hidden flags. New unit test
validateRejectsOutOfRangeFlags pins a representative set.

Polish:
- Drop the dead Phase 1 / MSGFPlusOptionsAdapter / ParamManager
  rollout narrative from the MSGFPlusOptions class header (both
  the adapter class and ParamManager were deleted in earlier
  commits; the comment was stale).
- Collapse the unrecognizedConfigEntries field + local probe
  counter in applyConfigFile into a single counter reset at start
  and read at end -- one piece of state, simpler control flow.
- Strip the CRLF (\r before \n) on docs/examples/MSGFPlus_Params.txt
  and src/test/resources/MSGFDB_Param.txt, which git diff --check
  was flagging as trailing whitespace. The rest of the codebase is
  LF-only.

Verified:
- mvn -B -o test on the scoped sweep (77 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors,
  3 skipped).
- SearchParamsTest no longer warns "unrecognized parameter
  'minCharge=2'" / "'maxCharge=5'" when loading MSGFDB_Param.txt.
- git diff --check on this commit is clean.
Drop the lingering String + numeric backcompat for the two enum-shaped
flags whose values are real names rather than IDs (per user direction:
'unless are options like 1 2 3 we should do only string'). After this
commit:

- -outputFormat accepts only `pin` / `tsv` (case-insensitive). The
  legacy numeric forms `0` / `1` are no longer recognised; users on
  those invocations should switch to the named values. This is a
  deliberate breaking change called out in the parameter-modernization
  cleanup -- consistency over backcompat in this corner.
- -precursorCal continues to accept only `auto` / `on` / `off`
  (case-insensitive), but now via picocli's typed enum matcher rather
  than a String + fromString fallback. Invalid values fail fast at
  parse time instead of silently mapping to AUTO.

Numeric-ID flags (-m, -inst, -e, -protocol) and 0/1 boolean-style
flags (-tda, -verbose, -addFeatures, -allowDenseCentroidedPeaks,
-edgeScore, -ignoreMetCleavage, -u, -ntt) keep their integer types --
those values are IDs, not names.

Implementation:

- New cli.OutputFormat enum (PIN, TSV).
- MSGFPlusOptions.outputFormat: String -> OutputFormat.
- MSGFPlusOptions.precursorCalMode: String -> SearchParams.PrecursorCalMode.
- effectiveOutputFormat() now returns OutputFormat (was int 0/1).
- effectivePrecursorCalRaw() collapsed into effectivePrecursorCal()
  returning the typed enum.
- applyConfigEntry parses both flags via Enum.valueOf so config-file
  values like `OutputFormat=pin` and `PrecursorCal=auto` flow through
  the same case-insensitive contract as the CLI.
- SearchParams.outputFormat field: int -> OutputFormat. writePin() /
  writeTsv() helpers retained (callers in MSGFPlus.runMSGFPlus).
- SearchParams.PrecursorCalMode.fromString() deleted -- no callers
  after the resolver returns the typed enum directly.
- New static factory MSGFPlusOptions.commandLine(opts) returns a
  CommandLine with caseInsensitiveEnumValuesAllowed(true). All
  call sites (MSGFPlus.main + 5 test files) routed through it so
  enum case-insensitivity is uniform.
- docs/output.md updated to show `-outputFormat pin` / `tsv` and
  notes the numeric forms are no longer accepted.

Tests: TestDirectPinWriter.outputFormatAcceptsOnlyPinAndTsv pins the
new contract (numeric/legacy values rejected, named values accepted
case-insensitively). TestPrecursorCalScaffolding migrated to enum
constants and to a picocli rejection check for invalid values. The
old fromString-fallback test is replaced by the rejection test.

Scoped sweep: 78 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 4 skipped.
Expand the vNEXT entry to cover the full PR #25 modernization stack:

- CLI parser modernisation: picocli-driven MSGFPlusOptions; -conf
  flow with case-insensitive keys + 13 legacy aliases preserved;
  numeric/enum range validation surface restored.
- Breaking changes: -outputFormat numeric forms (0/1) removed in
  favour of named pin/tsv (typed enum); -precursorCal switched to
  typed enum (rejects unknown values instead of silently mapping
  to AUTO); spectrum input narrowed to mzML + mgf only (mzXML, MS2,
  PKL, _dta.txt parsers deleted); deprecated MSGFDB entry point and
  its dead MSGF/MSGFLib siblings removed.
- Internal refactor: edu.ucsd.msjava.params package deleted (~2,100
  LOC across 18 classes); package reorg (ui/ -> cli/, mzid/ -> output/,
  parser/ -> mgf/, net.pempek.unicode -> mgf); new typed value
  classes (MSGFPlusOptions, PrecursorTolerance, IntRange, OutputFormat);
  picocli 4.7.6 dep added.
- Bench gate: prior Astral 3-arm run confirmed bit-identical PSM
  target/decoy counts (89,479 / 46,792) between baseline and new
  branch in -precursorCal off mode. Table embedded in the entry.
- Earlier in cycle: precursor calibration + Percolator pin output
  bullets retained.

No code change; pure docs.
Combined sweep of cuts surfaced by the post-modernization LOC audit.
Net change: 13 files, +57 / -2,131 = -2,074 LOC.

### Deleted dead classes (-2,051 LOC, 6 files)

Verified zero callers across src/main and src/test before removal:

- msscorer/ScoringParameterGenerator (732 LOC) and
  ScoringParameterGeneratorWithErrors (880 LOC) -- standalone main()
  scoring-param tools from the pre-modernization era. Pre-built
  scoring model .tsv files are committed in resources; these
  generators are not invoked at search time and have no remaining
  consumers.
- output/Unimod (85 LOC) and output/UnimodComposition (133 LOC) --
  residue from the deleted mzIdentML write side. Atom.java's "Unimod
  mod bricks" comment is the only remaining reference and refers to
  upstream data, not the deleted classes.
- msgf/ToolLauncher (154 LOC) -- abstract launcher with no concrete
  implementations.
- msutil/ScoredString (67 LOC) -- duplicate of fdr/ScoredString with
  no live callers (all usages resolve to the fdr.* version).

### Inlined effective*() resolvers + helper collapse (-23 LOC net)

- ~20 of the trivial `field != null ? field : default` resolvers in
  MSGFPlusOptions are inlined at the SearchParams.parse call sites.
  The non-trivial registry-resolving ones (effectiveActivationMethod,
  effectiveInstrumentType, effectiveEnzyme, effectiveProtocol) and a
  handful of frequent ones (effectiveOutputFormat, effectiveMin/Max
  PeptideLength etc.) stay since their length pays for itself.
- ActivationMethodAvailability nested class collapsed -- it only
  hid one InstrumentType.getAllRegisteredInstrumentTypes().length call
  that is now inline in validate().
- SearchParams.getOutputFormat() and SearchParams.writePin() removed
  -- writePin() had two callers in MSGFPlus.java which now use
  !writeTsv() instead; getOutputFormat() had zero callers.

### stripComment dedup (-7 LOC)

The two implementations of "split-on-#-and-trim" (SearchParams.
getConfigLineWithoutComment and MSGFPlusOptions.stripComment)
collapsed: stripComment is the canonical version (package-public),
SearchParams.getConfigLineWithoutComment delegates to it, and
AminoAcidSet.parseConfigEntry calls stripComment directly.

### Validation surface expanded

MSGFPlusOptions.validate() now also rejects a -mod / ModificationFile=
path that does not exist, returning a user-facing error string. New
regression test (validateRejectsMissingModificationFile) pins both
the CLI path and the config-file path.

Verified: scoped sweep (TestDirectPinWriter, TestMSUtils, TestSA,
TestMisc, TestRunManifestWriter, SearchParamsTest, TestPercolator,
TestMinSpectraPerThread, TestPrecursorCalScaffolding,
TestCandidatePeptideGrid + ConsideringMetCleavage,
MSGFPlusOptionsConfigFileTest, MSGFPlusOptionsActivationMethodTest):
78 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 3 skipped.
…quences

Net change: 21 files, +24 / -409 = -385 LOC. Combines the audit's
medium-value pass with a parallel sweep across the codebase for
methods and fields with no live callers.

### Dependencies dropped from pom.xml

- commons-text: zero direct usages.
- commons-io: NullOutputStream replaced by Java 11's
  OutputStream.nullOutputStream() in ConcurrentMSGFPlus;
  FilenameUtils.removeExtension replaced by an inline lastIndexOf('.')
  + substring in BuildSA.

Removing commons-text also drops its transitive commons-lang3, which
was used by mgf/BufferedRandomAccessLineReader for Pair<String,
Integer>. Replaced with a small local record BomStripResult
(text, bomLength) — single-purpose, no API consumers, simpler at
the use sites (result.text() / result.bomLength() vs result.getKey()
/ result.getValue()).

### Dead code removed across packages

Verified zero remaining callers for each:

- fdr/TargetDecoyAnalysis: ~38 lines of commented-out legacy
  constructors that referenced a non-existent TargetDecoyPSMSet
  class. Pure comment cleanup.
- fdr/TSVPSMSet: 14 LOC of dead methods.
- mgf/MgfSpectrumParser: 35 LOC of dead methods.
- msgf/AAFrequencyCounter: 44 LOC of dead helpers.
- msgf/MassListComparator: 15 LOC.
- msscorer/NewRankScorer + NewScorerFactory: 31 LOC of dead
  helpers (kept all live scoring-path code per CLAUDE.md invariants).
- msutil/AminoAcidSet, Composition, CompositionFactory, IonType,
  Peptide: ~110 LOC of dead helpers and fields.
- sequences/FastaSequence + FastaSequences + ProteinFastaSequence
  + ProteinFastaSequences: ~76 LOC of dead methods.

### Other cleanup

- SearchParams.toString: drop 6 lines of commented-out spectrum-list
  output and switch StringBuffer (synchronized, single-threaded
  caller) to StringBuilder.

Verified: scoped sweep (TestDirectPinWriter, TestMSUtils, TestSA,
TestMisc, TestRunManifestWriter, SearchParamsTest, TestPercolator,
TestMinSpectraPerThread, TestPrecursorCalScaffolding,
TestCandidatePeptideGrid + ConsideringMetCleavage,
MSGFPlusOptionsConfigFileTest, MSGFPlusOptionsActivationMethodTest):
78 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 3 skipped.
Four test files (TestDirectPinWriter, TestPrecursorCalScaffolding,
TestPrecursorCalIntegration, TestRunManifestWriter) had nearly
identical buildOpts()/parsedSearchParams() helpers loading the
standard MSGFDB_Param.txt + test.mgf + human-uniprot-contaminants.fasta
fixture set. Collapse into a single shared
SearchTestFixtures.standardOpts() helper in src/test/java/edu/ucsd/
msjava/cli; the two tests that need extra fields (output file,
maxMissedCleavages) call standardOpts() and tweak the result.

Net change: -25 LOC, plus tests now stale-import-free.

Verified: scoped sweep (42 tests across the 4 affected files +
MSGFPlusOptionsConfigFileTest + MSGFPlusOptionsActivationMethodTest
+ SearchParamsTest): 0 failures, 0 errors.
Scrub 31 Java source files of five comment categories:
  - single-line javadoc restating the method/field name
  - block javadoc containing only @param/@return lines
  - /* (non-Javadoc) */ markers
  - section headers (GETTERS / SETTERS / CONSTRUCTORS / etc.)
  - commented-out code blocks (dead debug printlns, old algorithms,
    inactive fields, alternative scorer variants)

Non-obvious WHY comments, license headers, performance invariants,
CLI contract javadoc, and Picocli @option descriptions are preserved
unchanged.

LOC delta: -2262 lines, +42 lines across 31 files.

Scoped test sweep: 78 tests run, 0 failures, 0 errors, 3 skipped
(TestMSUtils×1, TestSA×2 — pre-existing skips unrelated to this change).
Continues the comment cleanup pass with a focused removal of
disabled-but-kept Java code masquerading as comments. Net change:
32 files, +1 / -323 = -322 LOC.

What was removed:

- fdr/TargetDecoyAnalysis: dead 10-line if/else block at the tail of
  getFDRMap() that re-set fdrMap edges no longer needed after the
  q-value conversion.
- fdr/ComputeFDR: 2-line commented-out specFileCol guard.
- msdbsearch/{CandidatePeptideGrid,CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage,
  CompactFastaSequence, CompactSuffixArray, DBScanner, MassErrorStat,
  PSMFeatureFinder} and msgf/{ProfileGF, FlexAminoAcidGraph,
  ScoredSpectrumSum}: scattered // foo() / /* alt impl */ blocks
  documenting old algorithm variants and disabled debug printlns.
- msutil/{AminoAcid, Composition, Constants, IonType, VolatileAminoAcid}:
  ~90 LOC of commented-out static initializers, alternate composition
  tables, and debug-only branches.
- sequences/{FastaSequence, FastaSequences, ProteinFastaSequences}
  and suffixarray/SuffixArray: ~37 LOC of dead disabled stubs.

Genuine prose comments (TODOs, performance invariants, why-explanations,
URLs to upstream issues, the `applyShift` bit-identical-path guard)
are preserved.

Verified: scoped sweep (TestDirectPinWriter, TestMSUtils, TestSA,
TestMisc, TestRunManifestWriter, SearchParamsTest, TestPercolator,
TestMinSpectraPerThread, TestPrecursorCalScaffolding,
TestCandidatePeptideGrid + ConsideringMetCleavage,
MSGFPlusOptionsConfigFileTest, MSGFPlusOptionsActivationMethodTest):
78 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 3 skipped.
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Pull request overview

This PR refactors the MS-GF+ search execution path to reduce synchronization/allocation overhead and adds instrumentation for per-task wall-time breakdowns, while also continuing the CLI/parameter modernization work (typed options via picocli) and pruning legacy/unused code paths.

Changes:

  • Add per-task wall-time instrumentation and switch to per-task result buffers (drained/merged after completion) to reduce contention.
  • Remove redundant synchronization in task-owned structures and trim allocations (e.g., reusable null sink).
  • Continue CLI modernization (typed MSGFPlusOptions, typed -outputFormat, typed ranges/tolerances), remove legacy spectrum formats/parsers, and update docs/tests accordingly.

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src/test/java/msgfplus/TestSA.java Update tests to use MSGFPlusOptions instead of legacy ParamManager.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestRunManifestWriter.java Use SearchTestFixtures + MSGFPlusOptions for manifest parsing tests.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestPrecursorCalScaffolding.java Update precursor calibration tests to picocli/typed options.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestPrecursorCalIntegration.java Update integration tests to MSGFPlusOptions + typed PrecursorCalMode.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestPercolator.java Switch ignored Percolator test harness to picocli-based options parsing.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMisc.java Remove an ignored legacy TSV-based generator helper and update MSGFPlus import.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMinSpectraPerThread.java Rework tests around MSGFPlusOptions.effectiveMinSpectraPerThread().
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMSUtils.java Update mod-file parsing test to use MSGFPlusOptions.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestMSLevelFiltering.java Remove legacy ParamManager-based msLevel tests.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestIntRangeParameter.java Remove legacy IntRangeParameter tests.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestIPRG.java Update ignored IPRG test harness to MSGFPlusOptions/picocli.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestDirectPinWriter.java Update .pin writer shape tests to new packages and typed OutputFormat.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestCollaboration.java Update ignored collaboration harness to MSGFPlusOptions/picocli.
src/test/java/msgfplus/TestCandidatePeptideGrid.java Update tests to pass MSGFPlusOptions into AA set builders.
src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/TestConcurrentMSGFPlus.java Add/adjust tests for task-local result buffers and drain semantics.
src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/SearchParamsTest.java Update SearchParams parsing tests to MSGFPlusOptions.
src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/SearchTestFixtures.java New shared test fixture builder for standard conf+mgf+fasta resources.
src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlusOptionsConfigFileTest.java New regression tests for config overlay, validation, and CustomAA handling.
src/test/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/MSGFPlusOptionsActivationMethodTest.java New test pinning -m index → ActivationMethod mapping (incl. UVPD).
src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF Update jar entrypoint main class to edu.ucsd.msjava.cli.MSGFPlus.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/suffixarray/SuffixArray.java Remove dead debug/commented code.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/sequences/ProteinFastaSequences.java Remove dead debug main method and stale prints.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/sequences/ProteinFastaSequence.java Remove dead debug main method.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/sequences/FastaSequences.java Remove dead debug main method and stale prints.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/parser/TSVResultParser.java Remove unused legacy TSV parsing helper.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/parser/TSVParser.java Remove unused legacy TSV parser.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/parser/SpectrumParserWithTitle.java Remove legacy title-based parser interface.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/parser/SPTxtParser.java Remove legacy SPTXT parsing implementation.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/parser/PklSpectrumParser.java Remove legacy PKL parsing implementation.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/parser/PNNLSpectraMap.java Remove legacy PNNL dta.txt SpectraMap.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/parser/PNNLSpectraIterator.java Remove legacy PNNL dta.txt iterator.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/parser/MS2SpectrumParser.java Remove legacy MS2 parsing implementation.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/parser/FullyBufferedLineReader.java Remove unused fully-buffered reader.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/ToleranceParameter.java Remove legacy parameter-stack classes (tolerance).
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/StringParameter.java Remove legacy parameter-stack classes (string).
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/RangeParameter.java Remove legacy parameter-stack classes (range).
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/Parameter.java Remove legacy parameter-stack base class.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/ParamParser.java Remove legacy config/CLI parsing helper.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/ObjectEnumParameter.java Remove legacy enum/object parameter wrapper.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/NumberParameter.java Remove legacy numeric parameter wrapper.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/IntRangeParameter.java Remove legacy int-range parameter type.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/IntParameter.java Remove legacy int parameter type.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/FloatRangeParameter.java Remove legacy float-range parameter type.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/FloatParameter.java Remove legacy float parameter type.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/FileParameter.java Remove legacy file parameter type.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/FileListParameter.java Remove legacy file-list parameter type.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/EnumParameter.java Remove legacy enum parameter type.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/DoubleParameter.java Remove legacy double parameter type.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/CaseInsensitiveMap.java Remove legacy case-insensitive map helper.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/params/CaseInsensitiveLinkedHashMapParam.java Remove legacy case-insensitive parameter map.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/output/DirectTSVWriter.java Move DirectTSVWriter into edu.ucsd.msjava.output package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/output/DirectPinWriter.java Move DirectPinWriter into edu.ucsd.msjava.output package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mzml/StaxMzMLSpectraIterator.java Update SpectrumParser import to new mgf package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mzml/StaxMzMLParser.java Trim/adjust API comments in public methods.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mzid/UnimodComposition.java Remove unused mzIdentML-era Unimod composition helper.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mzid/Unimod.java Remove unused mzIdentML-era Unimod loader.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/VolatileAminoAcid.java Remove dead debug prints.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/UserParam.java Move UserParam into msutil and update reader import.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/SpectrumAccessorByTitle.java Remove title-based accessor interface.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/SpectraMapByTitle.java Remove title-based SpectraMap implementation.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/SpectraMap.java Update imports to mgf reader/parser packages.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/SpectraIterator.java Update imports to mgf reader/parser packages.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/SpectraContainer.java Update SpectrumParser import to mgf package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/SpectraAccessor.java Narrow supported spectrum formats to mzML+MGF and update parser wiring.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/SpecKey.java Update SpectrumParser import and trim debug comments.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/SpecFileFormat.java Remove legacy format constants; keep mzML+MGF only.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/ScoredString.java Remove unused msutil ScoredString implementation.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/Protocol.java Remove obsolete imports tied to removed params package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/ParamObject.java Move ParamObject into msutil package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/Pair.java Replace verbose Javadoc with concise class comment; keep behavior.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/Modification.java Trim/clarify comments; keep modification identity logic.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/Matter.java Trim/clarify comments.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/IonType.java Remove dead debug main and commented debug prints.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/InstrumentType.java Remove obsolete ParamObject import and stale commented code.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/Constants.java Remove dead/commented blocks.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/CompositionFactory.java Remove empty main method.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/Composition.java Remove large blocks of unused commented code.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msutil/ActivationMethod.java Remove obsolete imports and dead debug prints.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/PrecursorOffsetFrequency.java Remove dead debug prints.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/NewScorerFactory.java Remove dead debug main method.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/NewScoredSpectrum.java Trim debug comments and clarify one method doc.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/NewRankScorer.java Remove dead/commented debug code and unused main/test hooks.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/IonProbability.java Remove dead debug prints.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/FastScorer.java Remove dead debug comments.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msscorer/DBScanScorer.java Remove dead debug comments.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mslibsearch/ProcessedSpectrum.java Remove unused library-search helper.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/ToolLauncher.java Remove unused tool launcher base class.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/Tolerance.java Trim comments and clarify getToleranceAsDa behavior.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/ScoredSpectrumSum.java Remove dead assertion comment.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/ScoreDist.java Remove dead debug/commented blocks.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/ProfileGF.java Remove dead commented code.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/NominalMassFactory.java Trim dead comment.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/MassListComparator.java Remove dead debug main method.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/MSGFDBResultGenerator.java Remove dead commented algorithm block.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/Histogram.java Remove dead debug prints.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/GeneratingFunction.java Remove dead/commented blocks; keep warning behavior.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/FlexAminoAcidGraph.java Remove dead commented code and tighten warning handling comments.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/DeNovoGraph.java Remove dead abstract method comment.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/BacktrackTable.java Remove dead commented residue mapping block.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msgf/AAFrequencyCounter.java Remove dead debug main/generator helpers.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ScoredSpectraMap.java Drop synchronized wrappers on task-owned maps; trim dead comments.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ReverseDB.java Update MSGFPlus import to new CLI package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PeptideEnumerator.java Update MSGFPlus import to new CLI package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/PSMFeatureFinder.java Remove dead commented fields and placeholders.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/MassErrorStat.java Remove dead commented fields/accessors.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/LibraryScanner.java Update BufferedLineReader import to new mgf package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/ConcurrentMSGFPlus.java Add task wall stats + task-local result buffers; reuse NULL print stream.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CompactSuffixArray.java Remove dead debug comments and simplify toString().
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CompactFastaSequence.java Update MSGFPlus import and remove dead commented bounds check.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGridConsideringMetCleavage.java Remove dead constructor comments.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/CandidatePeptideGrid.java Remove dead constructor/addResidue comments.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/msdbsearch/BuildSA.java Remove commons-io FilenameUtils usage (inline extension stripping).
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mgf/SpectrumParser.java Move parser interface into edu.ucsd.msjava.mgf package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mgf/MgfSpectrumParser.java Move MGF parser into mgf package and trim legacy Javadoc/debug.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mgf/LineReader.java Move LineReader into mgf package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mgf/BufferedRandomAccessLineReader.java Move reader into mgf package; replace tuple Pair with record.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mgf/BufferedLineReader.java Move reader into mgf package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/fdr/TargetDecoyAnalysis.java Remove dead commented constructors and debug prints.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/fdr/TSVPSMSet.java Update MSGFPlus import and remove dead peptide-parsing comments.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/fdr/ScoredString.java Trim verbose Javadoc.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/fdr/Pair.java Trim verbose Javadoc.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/fdr/PSMSet.java Remove dead commented method stub.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/fdr/MSGFPlusPSMSet.java Update MSGFPlus import to new CLI package.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/fdr/ComputeQValue.java Update imports to new mgf reader and cli MSGFPlus.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/fdr/ComputeFDR.java Remove dead commented validation stub.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/PrecursorTolerance.java New typed precursor tolerance parser + picocli converter.
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/OutputFormat.java New typed output format enum (pin/tsv).
src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/cli/IntRange.java New typed inclusive int range + picocli converter.
pom.xml Switch shaded jar main class to CLI entrypoint; swap commons-io for picocli.
docs/troubleshooting.md Update troubleshooting guidance to .pin/.tsv outputs (no mzid).
docs/readme.md Document narrowed spectrum input support and outputs.
docs/output.md Update -outputFormat usage to named values.
docs/msgfplus.md Update usage docs to reflect supported formats and mzML-only wording.
README.md Update top-level README to reflect .pin/TSV outputs and narrowed inputs.
.claude/plans/parameter-modernization.md Add design/plan document for picocli/parameter modernization.
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src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mgf/BufferedLineReader.java:6

  • UnicodeBOMInputStream requires an explicit skipBOM() call to actually consume the BOM, but BufferedLineReader's constructor currently just wraps the stream without calling skipBOM(). This can leave a BOM character at the start of the first line and break parsing of FASTA/mod/config files. Consider updating the constructor to call skipBOM() (or otherwise ensure the BOM is removed) while doing this package move.

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| `-outputFormat pin` (default) | Percolator `.pin` | `.pin` | Feed to Percolator / MS²Rescore / Mokapot for FDR-calibrated rescoring |
| `-outputFormat tsv` | Tab-separated values | `.tsv` | Direct inspection / downstream tools that consume TSV |

`-outputFormat` accepts the named values `pin` and `tsv` (case-insensitive). Numeric forms (`0`, `1`) accepted by older releases are no longer recognised — pass the named value instead.
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The PR description says there are no CLI default changes, but this diff changes the CLI contract by removing numeric -outputFormat values (0/1) and requiring named values (pin/tsv). If this is intentional, please call it out explicitly in the PR description/release notes (it’s a breaking change for existing scripts). If it’s not intentional, consider supporting numeric aliases for backward compatibility.

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- Input: HUPO PSI standard mzML and MGF only (mzXML, MS2, PKL, and `_dta.txt` are not supported in this fork).
- Output: Percolator `.pin` (default, for rescoring) or TSV. mzIdentML (`.mzid`) output has been removed — MS-GF+ now feeds downstream Percolator pipelines directly via `.pin`. See [Changelog](changelog.md) for migration notes.
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The PR description focuses on search hot-path perf/refactors, but this diff explicitly narrows supported spectrum inputs to mzML+MGF (dropping mzXML/MS2/PKL/_dta.txt). That’s a user-visible breaking change; if it’s intended, it should be explicitly called out in the PR description (and ideally migration notes). If it’s not intended, SpectraAccessor/SpecFileFormat will need to retain the legacy format handlers.

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ypriverol commented Apr 27, 2026

Finished the sequential 3-dataset x 3-arm cold benchmark run locally and compared the completed native outputs against the previous saved 3-arm runs.

Native search summary from this run:

Dataset Arm A baseline Arm B (A-only / off) Arm C (A+B / auto)
PXD001819 28037 T / 11022 D 28037 T / 11022 D 28124 T / 10951 D
PXD007683 28790 T / 14768 D 28790 T / 14768 D 28790 T / 14768 D
Astral 89479 T / 46792 D 89479 T / 46792 D 89360 T / 46913 D

Quick readout:

  • PXD001819: correctness gate still holds for arm B; arm C still shows the expected native lift vs baseline/off (+87 T, -71 D).
  • PXD007683: all three arms remain bit-identical natively.
  • Astral: arm B still matches baseline exactly; arm C reproduces the same native delta as the previous 3-arm run.

Wall-time comparison vs the previous saved 3-arm runs:

Dataset Arm A Arm B Arm C
PXD001819 99.4s vs 215.2s (-53.8%) 98.3s vs 112.6s (-12.7%) 101.2s vs 118.7s (-14.7%)
PXD007683 228.2s vs 225.7s (+1.1%) 219.2s vs 222.3s (-1.4%) 225.8s vs 243.5s (-7.3%)
Astral 549.9s vs 1625.4s (-66.2%) 558.4s vs 4631.5s (-87.9%) 667.4s vs 769.5s (-13.3%)

So the native outcomes are stable relative to the earlier 3-arm checkpoints, while runtime is materially better on PXD001819 and especially Astral; PXD007683 is effectively flat/slightly better.

Separate review follow-up: the unused MSGFResult.java cleanup is done locally, but that tiny deletion is not pushed yet, so the corresponding review thread should stay open until that commit lands.

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Small LOC note for the current pushed branch versus dev:

  • 160 files changed
  • 3,499 insertions
  • 11,603 deletions
  • net change: -8,104 lines of code

That stat is from git diff origin/dev...HEAD, so it reflects what is currently committed on perf/search-sync-cleanup.

The tiny local MSGFResult.java deletion is not included in that number yet because it is still only in the worktree and has not been pushed.

Two follow-ups from the PR #25 review thread:

1. BOM strip in BufferedLineReader (Copilot finding).
   The constructor wrapped the FileInputStream in
   UnicodeBOMInputStream but never called skipBOM() -- BOM bytes
   leaked into line 1, breaking config / mod / FASTA files saved by
   editors that prepend a UTF-8 BOM (Windows Notepad, some VS Code
   configurations, etc.). Fix: chain .skipBOM() in the super(...)
   call. The BOM-stripping path is per-instance; the wrapper still
   detects the BOM in its constructor, we just now consume it.

   New test BufferedLineReaderTest pins the contract: a file with a
   UTF-8 BOM followed by `ParentMassTolerance=20ppm` returns the
   bare key=value as line 1 (not `ParentMassTolerance=20ppm`),
   and a no-BOM file is unchanged.

2. Delete unused MSGFResult.java.
   Verified zero callers in src/main and src/test before removal.
   The reviewer flagged this as a small follow-up to land alongside
   the modernization sweep.

Verified: scoped sweep (BufferedLineReaderTest,
MSGFPlusOptionsConfigFileTest, MSGFPlusOptionsActivationMethodTest,
SearchParamsTest, TestPrecursorCalScaffolding, TestRunManifestWriter,
TestDirectPinWriter, TestMSUtils, TestMisc, TestMinSpectraPerThread):
55 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 2 skipped.
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Follow-up commit a3994de lands the two open review threads:

  1. Copilot BOM finding (BufferedLineReader.java): the constructor wrapped the input in UnicodeBOMInputStream but never called skipBOM(), so the BOM bytes leaked into line 1 for any UTF-8-BOM-prefixed config / mod / FASTA file (Windows-edited files mostly). Fixed by chaining .skipBOM() in the super(...) call. New regression test BufferedLineReaderTest pins the contract — a file <BOM>ParentMassTolerance=20ppm now returns the bare key/value as line 1.

    https://github.com/bigbio/msgfplus/blob/a3994de/src/main/java/edu/ucsd/msjava/mgf/BufferedLineReader.java#L13-L17

  2. MSGFResult.java deletion landed (zero callers in src/main and src/test verified before removal).

Scoped sweep after the fix: 55 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 2 skipped (incl. the two new BOM tests).

Bench correctness gate from the prior run still holds — the BOM fix doesn't touch the search hot path.

Convert eight value-shaped types to Java records, per the audit:
small immutable carriers with no inheritance constraints, where the
record's auto-generated equals/hashCode/toString and accessor methods
replace hand-rolled boilerplate. No behavioral change; net trim of
~80 LOC plus a clearer surface.

Converted:

- cli.IntRange -- record IntRange(int min, int max). Compact
  constructor keeps the min<=max validation. parse() and
  Converter (picocli ITypeConverter) preserved.
- cli.PrecursorTolerance -- record PrecursorTolerance(Tolerance left,
  Tolerance right). Compact constructor enforces the matching-unit
  and non-negative invariants in-place; parse() / Converter retained.
- msutil.CvParamInfo -- record CvParamInfo(String accession, String
  name, String value, String unitAccession, String unitName). The
  stored hasUnit field is gone; hasUnit() is now derived from
  unitAccession != null. Compatibility getters (getAccession(),
  getValue(), getUnitAccession(), getUnitName(), getHasUnit()) keep
  existing call sites untouched.
- msutil.Annotation -- record Annotation(AminoAcid prevAA, Peptide
  peptide, AminoAcid nextAA). Setters (which had no live callers)
  removed; the parsing constructor delegates via this(...).
  isProteinNTerm/isProteinCTerm and the dotted toString are kept.
- msgf.ProfilePeak<T extends Matter> -- record. Setters were unused;
  Comparable<ProfilePeak<T>> is preserved.
- msutil.Atom -- record Atom(String code, double mass, int
  nominalMass, String name). Static atomArr table + atomMap +
  static initializer block all kept verbatim. getCode() / getName() /
  getMass() / getNominalMass() retained as compatibility wrappers.
- msdbsearch.CompactSuffixArray.RangeMetadata -- record (4 file/int
  fields). Three call sites updated from md.numEntries to
  md.numEntries() etc.
- msgf.MassListComparator.MatchedPair<T extends Matter> -- record.
  getMass1/getMass2 retained as compatibility wrappers.

Call-site updates in SearchParams.parse: tol.left/.right, isotope.min/.max,
specIdx.min/.max, ms.min/.max all switched to record accessor methods
(.left()/.right()/.min()/.max()).

Verified: scoped sweep (incl. BufferedLineReaderTest,
MSGFPlusOptionsConfigFileTest, MSGFPlusOptionsActivationMethodTest,
SearchParamsTest, TestPrecursorCalScaffolding, TestRunManifestWriter,
TestDirectPinWriter, TestMinSpectraPerThread, TestMSUtils, TestSA,
TestMisc, TestCandidatePeptideGrid + ConsideringMetCleavage):
80 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 3 skipped.
@ypriverol ypriverol merged commit 2216bbb into dev Apr 27, 2026
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