This software verifies, via LDAP, the users specified in a Mascot user XML file, and provides a list of the valid e-mail addresses. Mascot is produced by Matrix Science and is used in the analysis of Protein Mass Spectrometry data.
$ python ./mascot-verified-email-list.py data/user.xml
# presents a list of verified Mascot user e-mail addresses
To access the latest version of the software, you can access the git repository on [github.com]{http:://github.com/fls-bioinformatics-core/proteomics-mascot-user-contact-verify}.
$ git clone git://github.com/fls-bioinformatics-core/proteomics-mascot-user-contact-verify
The software depends on a custom library, also available from github.com. However, if you used Git to obtain the software, you can use Git to download the software:
$ git submodules update --init
This program was born out of a need to contact users of a local Mascot server "on mass", but in an environment where some of the users with accounts had moved on to greener pastures.
The software was designed to load in the Mascot user.xml file, identify the users, and then query each user against the LDAP. Currently, an assumption is made that the usernames used in the Mascot users are the same usernames used in the LDAP verification: that is that the username is used as the key to verify the Mascot users.
The Quick Start section presents the best way of running the software. The main exceptions to this, are if the dependant library has been stored elsewhere. In that case, it is necessary to inform Python where to look for the library (providing that this is not on the Python library search path).
$ PYTHONLIB=~/lib/python2.7/ ./log-time.py searches.log
Julian Selley <j.selley@manchester.ac.uk>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.