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Spectra

Spectra Infrastructure for Mass Spectrometry Data

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.22.2

The Spectra package defines an efficient infrastructure for storing and handling mass spectrometry spectra and functionality to subset, process, visualize and compare spectra data. It provides different implementations (backends) to store mass spectrometry data. These comprise backends tuned for fast data access and processing and backends for very large data sets ensuring a small memory footprint.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("Spectra")

Details

MaintainerRforMassSpectrometry Package Maintainer <maintainer@rformassspectrometry.org>
AuthorRforMassSpectrometry Package Maintainer [cre], Laurent Gatto [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1520-2268>), Johannes Rainer [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6977-7147>), Sebastian Gibb [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7406-4443>), Philippine Louail [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5429-6846>), Jan Stanstrup [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0541-7369>), Nir Shahaf [ctb], Mar Garcia-Aloy [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1330-6610>), Guillaume Deflandre [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1257-2416>), Ahlam Mentag [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5438-7067>)
LicenseArtistic-2.0
URLhttps://github.com/RforMassSpectrometry/Spectra
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/RforMassSpectrometry/Spectra/issues
Downloads rank3955
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsInfrastructure, MassSpectrometry, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Software

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1.0), S4Vectors, BiocParallel

Imports: ProtGenerics (>= 1.39.2), methods, IRanges, MsCoreUtils (>= 1.23.6), graphics, grDevices, stats, tools, utils, fs, BiocGenerics, MetaboCoreUtils, data.table

Suggests: testthat, knitr (>= 1.1.0), MsDataHub, roxygen2, BiocStyle (>= 2.5.19), mzR (>= 2.19.6), rhdf5 (>= 2.32.0), rmarkdown, vdiffr (>= 1.0.0), msentropy, patrick

Reverse dependencies

Depends On Me (8): hdxmsqc, MetCirc, MsBackendMassbank, MsBackendMetaboLights, MsBackendMgf, MsBackendMsp, MsBackendRawFileReader, MsBackendSql

Imports Me (10): Chromatograms, CompoundDb, lcmsPlot, MetaboAnnotation, MsExperiment, MsQuality, PSMatch, SpectraQL, SpectriPy, xcms

Suggests Me (5): fioRa, MetNet, MsDataHub, MSnbase, RaMS