TPP 7.0.0 Release is now available

[David Shteynberg]

Announcing the official release of Trans-Proteomic Pipeline (TPP) 7.0.0 "Arafel"

We are proud to offer a major update to the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline (TPP) software, release 7.0.0.  The software is available for MacOS, Windows, Linux, as well as Android from all the usual locations (please see the section below, "Getting the TPP Software").  We recommend for most users to use the Windows or MacOS installer, which installs and configures TPP and other required software, such as the Apache web server, perl, and python.  For advanced users, who need to customize TPP, or for those users who run on Linux or Android, the source code should be downloaded and the software configured and compiled.  If building from source, please add your site specific configuration to site.mk in the top level directory after unpacking the source-code.

== Highlights ==

+ MacOS two-click install!
+ Python Support and addition of Seq2MS for Generative AI of Peptide Fragment Spectra

+ Native Support of Kojak for Cross-linked Peptide Search

+ Native Support of Magnum for Open-mass Peptide Search

+ StPeter Quantification "by run" or "by experiment"

+ Easy to access PeptideProphet VMC model for rare-PTMs

== Release Notes ==
Release notes on the most important new features, changes, and known issues are available at:
 http://tools.proteomecenter.org/wiki/index.php?title=TPP:7.0.0_Release_Notes


== Getting the TPP Software ==
Download the TPP version 7.0.0 native windows installer from the Sashimi SourceForge project file release page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sashimi/files/latest/download

Everyone is encouraged to read and contribute to our wiki, at
  http://tools.proteomecenter.org/wiki/

For guides to installing and using our software, please see our wiki:
  http://tools.proteomecenter.org/wiki/index.php?title=Software:TPP

For downloading the source code, please go to the following link:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/sashimi/files/  and find the 7.0.0 source code  package
or, check out the code directly from svn:
  svn export svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/sashimi/code/tags/release_7-0-0

For building from source, please refer to the README and INSTALL files in top level source directory of the TPP code tree as well as the wiki.


== Acknowledgements ==
The TPP Team: David, Luis, Mike, Eric, Jimmy, plus all other developers who contributed to this release from ISB.  Thanks to developers and users from the TPP's user community who also provided feedback and code contributions.