This has recently been ameliorated by some new tools that can convert vendor formats on non-Windows platforms. The ThermoRawFileParser tool can convert Thermo Fisher instrument RAW files to mzML in a platform-independent manner, although it depends on a functional Mono () dependency, which is not always trivial to configure. The TPP does not directly bundle ThermoRawFileParser because of these complex dependencies, but if it is available on the TPP instance, then it can be used. Bruker Corporation makes available dynamic libraries that enable other tools to provide reader or converter functionality for its TDF format (used by timsTOF type instruments). The Pythonbased TIMSCONVERT tool uses the Bruker library to perform file conversion of timsTOF data to mzML. This is also not bundled in the TPP download, but can be used with the TPP if installed separately (it is included in TPP cloud-computing images and containers, see below). Certain other vendor-supplied converters, such as the SCIEX converter may be downloaded separately and used with TPP.