LIBOPENMS

NAME

libopenms - library for LC/MS data management and analysis

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the libopenms package that brings a library for LC/MS data management and analysis. OpenMS offers an infrastructure for the development of mass spectrometry-related software and powerful 2D and 3D visualization solutions. OpenMS offers analyses for various quantitation protocols, including label-free quantitation, SILAC, iTRAQ, SRM, SWATH⦠It provides build-in algorithms for de-novo identification and database search, as well as adapters to other state-of-the art tools like X!Tandem, Mascot, OMSSA⦠OpenMS supports the Proteomics Standard Initiative (PSI) formats for MS data and supports easy integration of tools into workflow engines like Knime, Galaxy, WS-Pgrade, and TOPPAS via the TOPPtools concept and a unified parameter handling.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE TO BE CITED

Marc Sturm, Andreas Bertsch, Clemens Gröpl, Andreas Hildebrandt, Rene Hussong, Eva Lange, Nico Pfeifer, Ole Schulz-Trieglaff, Alexandra Zerck, Knut Reinert, and Oliver Kohlbacher (2008) OpenMS â an Open-Source Software Framework for Mass Spectrometry. BMC Bioinformatics, 9:163. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-163.

SEE ALSO

topp(1), openms-common(7), openms(7), openms-doc(7).

The program is documented fully in the Tutorials, that are packaged in openms-doc.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3, published by the Free Software Foundation.

On a Debian system the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 3 can be found in the file ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3’.