InSilicoSpectro Proteomics OpenSource Library

摘要

The processing of proteomics mass spectrometry (MS) data requires special computations that are out of the scope of classical software. There is a need for libraries dealing with MSdedicated computations that would simplify the development of computer programs for proteomics by hiding some complicated computations. This would allow software specialists or bioinformatics specialists without detailed knowledge in proteomics computations to support their proteomics colleagues more efficiently. We introduced InSilicoSpectro a Perl library released under the LGPL license (free to use including in commercial software) that addresses this need (Colinge, Masselot, Carbonell, Appel, J Proteome Res, 2006, 5:619624). We present here the current status of the project with new developments for MS data analysis.