Designation:E2078−00(Reapproved2010)StandardGuideforAnalyticalDataInterchangeProtocolforMassSpectrometricData1ThisstandardisissuedunderthefixeddesignationE2078;thenumberimmediatelyfollowingthedesignationindicatestheyearoforiginaladoptionor,inthecaseofrevision,theyearoflastrevision.Anumberinparenthesesindicatestheyearoflastreapproval.Asuperscriptepsilon(´)indicatesaneditorialchangesincethelastrevisionorreapproval.1.Scope1.1ThisguidecoverstheimplementationoftheMassSpectrometricDataProtocolinanalyticalsoftwareapplica-tions.Implementationofthisprotocolrequires:1.1.1SpecificationE2077,whichcontainsthefullsetofdatadefinitions.Themassspectrometricdataprotocolisnotbaseduponanyspecificimplementation;itisdesignedtobeindependentofanyparticularimplementationsothatimple-mentationscanchangeastechnologyevolves.Theprotocolisimplementedincategoriestospeeditsacceptancethroughactualuse.1.1.2SpecificationE2077containsafulldescriptionofthecontentsofthedatacommunicationsprotocol,includingtheanalyticalinformationcategorieswithdataelementsandtheirattributesformostaspectsofmassspectrometrictests.1.2Theanalyticalinformationcategoriesareapracticalconvenienceforbreakingdownthestandardizationprocessintosmaller,moremanageablepieces.Itiseasierfordevelop-erstobuildconsensusandproduceworkingsystemsbasedonsmallerinformationsets,withouttheburdenandcomplexityofthehundredsofdataelementscontainedinallthecategories.Thecategoriesalsoassistvendorsandendusersinusingtheguideintheircomputingenvironments.1.3Thenetworkcommondataformat(NetCDF)datainter-changesystemisthecontainerusedtocommunicatedatabetweenapplicationsinawaythatisindependentofbothcomputerarchitecturesandend-userapplications.Inessence,itisaspecialtypeofapplicationdesignedfordatainterchange.1.4Thecommondatalanguage(CDL)templateformassspectrometryisalanguagespecificationofthemassspectrom-etrydatasetbeinginterchanged.WiththeuseoftheNetCDFutilities,thishuman-readabletemplatecanbeusedtogenerateanequivalentbinaryfileandthesoftwaresubroutinecallsnee...
