MASSXPERT(1)

💖 massXpert — NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to massxpert, a manual page from the General Commands Manual (that's section (1), iykyk). she does three iconic things and she does them well:

• Model linear polymers 🧬
• Simulate chemical reactions ⚗️
• Predict mass spectrometric data 📊

periodt. that's the whole vibe.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

massxpert [options]  [filename ...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first things first: this manual page gives you the brief rundown of the massxpert software, which ships inside the msXpertSuite software suite. 💅

here's the tea ☕ — this program lets you model linear polymer chemistries using a dedicated grammar. once you've defined the polymer chemistry of your dreams, you get to use it to define polymer sequence files. and those files? they're the starting point for simulating a huge set of chemical reactions onto that polymer sequence. no cap. 🔥

this software is made up of four main submodules:

• 🌸 XpertDef — the module to define brand new polymer chemistries
• 🌸 XpertCalc — the module to perform any mass calculation taking advantage of defined polymer chemistries
• 🌸 XpertEdit — the module to edit polymer sequences of any specific polymer chemistry and to graphically perform a wide array of chemical reactions along with the corresponding mass spectrum simulations
• 🌸 XpertMiner — the module to compare with maximum flexibility any number of mass-to-ratio (m/z) lists

four queens. one suite. obsessed. 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• ? | -h | --help — show this help message. she's helpful like that 🫶
• -c | --config — display the program configuration at build time, plus the Qt version used to build it. receipts! 🧾
• -v | --version — print the version of the software program along the with version of the Qt libraries used to build it. (yes, "along the with", that's the original phrasing and we respect the original phrasing 💖)
• -l | --license — print the license of this software. legal queen ⚖️
• filename ... — one or more names of files to be opened in the sequence editor. bring ur whole folder bestie, she can handle it 📁✨

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📚 Bibliographic reference to be cited 📚

if you're citing her in ur work (and honestly, why wouldn't you), here's the citation, exactly as it should be:

F. Rusconi (2009) massXpert 2: a cross-platform software environment for
polymer chemistry modelling and simulation/analysis of mass
spectrometric data. Bioinformatics, 25:2741-2742.
doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp504.

main character citation energy, fr fr. 🎀

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👀 See also 👀

• minexpert (1)

go say hi to her sibling too. 💜

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🌈 Useful reading 🌈

the program is documented fully in the massXpert User Manual, which is packaged in massxpert-doc. that manual comes in two flavours:

• a PDF-formatted file 📄
• HTML files 📃

and they live in /usr/share/doc/massxpert. go read, bestie, she wrote a whole book for you 😭💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>

this manual page was written by Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org> (initial writing 05 december).

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. 💜

and 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. go read the fine print, it's giving ✨ legally iconic ✨

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okay that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this one lives in the General Commands Manual, section (1), and the date/version line at the foot of the page is literally just ... — mysterious, elusive, lowkey a mystery queen, we love that for her. stay hydrated, run massxpert --help, and slay 💅💖🦋🌸