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MsBackendMetaboLights

Retrieve Mass Spectrometry Data from MetaboLights

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.6.1

MetaboLights is one of the main public repositories for storage of metabolomics experiments, which includes analysis results as well as raw data. The MsBackendMetaboLights package provides functionality to retrieve and represent mass spectrometry (MS) data from MetaboLights. Data files are downloaded and cached locally avoiding repetitive downloads. MS data from metabolomics experiments can thus be directly and seamlessly integrated into R-based analysis workflows with the Spectra and MsBackendMetaboLights package.

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("MsBackendMetaboLights")

Details

MaintainerJohannes Rainer <Johannes.Rainer@eurac.edu>
AuthorJohannes Rainer [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6977-7147>), Philippine Louail [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5429-6846>)
LicenseArtistic-2.0
URLhttps://github.com/RforMassSpectrometry/MsBackendMetaboLights
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/RforMassSpectrometry/MsBackendMetaboLights/issues
Downloads rank206
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsDataImport, Infrastructure, MassSpectrometry, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Software

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.2.0), Spectra (>= 1.15.12)

Imports: curl, ProtGenerics, BiocFileCache, S4Vectors, methods, progress, utils, MsCoreUtils (>= 1.23.8)

Suggests: testthat, rmarkdown, mzR, knitr, BiocStyle

Reverse dependencies

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