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MALDIquant-package {MALDIquant}

Quantitative Analysis of Mass Spectrometry Data
Package: 
MALDIquant
Version: 
1.6

Description

MALDIquant provides a complete analysis pipeline for MALDI-TOF and other 2-dimensional mass spectrometry data. Distinctive features include baseline subtraction using the SNIP algorithm, peak alignment using warping functions, handling of replicated measurements as well as allowing spectra with different resolutions.

For a first overview run demo("MALDIquant").

Details

Package: MALDIquant
Version: 1.6
Date: 2013-03-01
License: GPL (>= 3)
URL: http://strimmerlab.org/software/maldiquant/

Main classes:

  • MassPeaks: Represents a peak list of a single spectrum.
  • MassSpectrum: Represents a single spectrum.

The accompanying website (see below) provides example R scripts to illustrate the functionality of this package, too.

References

S. Gibb and K. Strimmer. 2012. MALDIquant: a versatile R package for the analysis of mass spectrometry data. Bioinformatics 28: 2270-2271. http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/17/2270.abstract

See website: http://strimmerlab.org/software/maldiquant/

See Also

  • Run demo files: demo("MALDIquant").
  • List all available manual pages: library(help="MALDIquant").

Author(s)

Sebastian Gibb

Maintainer: Sebastian Gibb mail@sebastiangibb.de

Documentation reproduced from package MALDIquant, version 1.6. License: GPL (>= 3)