LIBMSNUMPRESS(3)

✨ NAME ✨

libmsnumpress — bestie, it's the implementations of two compression schemes for numeric data from mass spectrometers 💖🧪

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so this manual page documents briefly the libmsnumpress software package. lowkey just the intro, the real tea is in the docs below 👇

The library provides implementations of 3 different algorithms, and no bestie they are NOT the same vibe:

• 1 of them is designed to compress first order smooth data like retention time or M/Z arrays 🌊 (smooth, calm, well-behaved, the good student of the group)
• 2 of them are for compressing non smooth data with lower requirements on precision like ion count arrays 🔥 (chaotic, but we love them anyway)

📚 Bibliographic reference to be cited

If you're gonna cite it, cite it right, bestie, periodt:

Teleman J, Dowsey AW, Gonzalez-Galarza FF, Perkins S, Pratt B, Röst HL, Malmström L, Malmström J, Jones AR, Deutsch EW, Levander F. Numerical compression schemes for proteomics mass spectrometry data. Mol Cell Proteomics 2014 Jun;13(6):1537-42. doi: H.1074/mcp.O114.037879.

🔍 Useful reading

The library is documented fully in the developer documentation, which is packaged in the libmsnumpress-dev-doc package 📦. That documentation is available in the form of HTML-formatted files (/usr/share/doc/libmsnumpress-dev-doc.pdf).

ngl if you want the actual lore, that's where it lives 💅

👑 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.

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.

fr fr if you're gonna remix this page, keep the license intact bestie, it's giving respect 🙏

💖 that's the whole page, and this little gem comes to you from the Library Functions Manual, section 3 — mwah, slay, go compress something 🦋✨🎀