ProteoWizard: The chosen one in RAW file conversion

I'm the chosen one.

After five years in proteomics and a quick walk through different computational proteomics topics such as: database analysis, proteomics repositories and databases or identification algorithms I'm sure that the most painful and no grateful job is work with file formats: writing, reading, and dealing with end-users. 

File formats (the way that we use to represent, storage and exchange our data) are fundamentals piece in bioinformatics, more than that, are one of the milestone of the Information Era. In some fields the topic is more stable than others, but the topic is still in the table for most of us. To have a quick idea see the evolution of general standards in recent years like XML, JSON and recently YAML.