New features in Mascot Server 2.6 - administartor must know

Spectral library

spectral library creation is supported in database manager.
There are some default NIST and PRIDE spectral libraries.
You need to enable these and wait mascot download it automatically to use them.

You can also create your own spectral library from mascot results

Report Improvement

Report will only show significant  results in default.
You can change it with  DisplayNonSignificantMatches in Configuration Options.

Others

Recompress function in database status page. Actually, you don't need to stop databases while updating them since Mascot 2.5.

tidy_data.pl can clean and compress data. This script is in \mascot\bin folder. You can run it manually or do it automatically in Mascot.dat, just follow the instruction in http://www.matrixscience.com/pdf/2015WKSHP6.pdf.

Mascot Daemon

Now you can summit the peak list over 4 GB, no matter mascot is running under IIS or Apache.