I am working on a mac, and need to work with some raw files. Essentially I am working on a tool that works with MGF and MZML files. I am extremely frustrated by the fact the only way to carry out this conversion seems to be either doing it on a different computer running windows or installing windows within bootcamp/virtual machine. 

Seriously in the age of information and data, are still being slowed down with vendor supplied libraries being old and incompatible? It reminds me graphics card drivers for Linux 10-15 years ago. So frustrating.. 


Thermo has released a new version of their RAW file reader written for `.NET` [http://planetorbitrap.com/rawfilereader#.W9R8oZNKiUk][1]. This is only a library, so you'll need to use a tool written on top of it like [https://github.com/compomics/ThermoRawFileParser][2] in order to convert a RAW file to an open format, but they should run on Mac and *nix systems which `.NET` has been ported to. 


  [1]: http://planetorbitrap.com/rawfilereader#.W9R8oZNKiUk
  [2]: https://github.com/compomics/ThermoRawFileParser