Using the Excel Summary Reporting Feature

ProMass can automatically produce an Excel summary for samples processed through the Xcalibur sample list. The ProMass Excel Summary provides a convenient way to provide a concise summary of results.

In order for ProMass to produce an Excel summary for a list of samples, you need to:

 Ensure that the Use Excel Summary checkbox is checked in your parameter file, which is set on the Reporting tab of the Build Znova Parameter File screen.

 Process your data from the Xcalibur sample list as usual. ProMass will search in the results directory for an Excel file with the ProMass format. The results will be automatically entered on the RESULTS sheet as shown by the example below.  If ProMass does not find an existing Excel report, it will create a new one called promass_results.xls .

 The ProMass Excel summary lists entries according to the Sample ID's that are entered into the Xcalibur sample list.  Therefore, you should ensure that any Sample ID's entered are unique for each sample.  If you do not want to enter Sample ID's, you can leave them blank and ProMass will use the data file names as the Sample ID's.