LIBOPENMS(3)

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💖 LIBOPENMS — like, the whole vibe 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Library Functions Manual (that's the manual name, not a drill), and it's about libopenms. buckle up, it's giving ✨mass spectrometry infrastructure✨ and honestly? iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

libopenms — the library for LC/MS data management and analysis. periodt. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so this manual page documents, briefly, the libopenms package — and what that package brings is a whole library for LC/MS data management and analysis. no cap.

OpenMS offers an infrastructure for the development of mass spectrometry-related software, and it also has powerful 2D and 3D visualization solutions. the range?? unmatched. 🫶

OpenMS offers analyses for various quantitation protocols, and bestie, the list is long:

  • label-free quantitation
  • SILAC
  • iTRAQ
  • SRM
  • SWATH…

like… it ate. 🔥

It provides build-in algorithms for de-novo identification and database search, plus adapters to other state-of-the-art tools, like:

  • X!Tandem
  • Mascot
  • OMSSA…

OpenMS supports the Proteomics Standard Initiative (PSI) formats for MS data, and it supports easy integration of tools into workflow engines like Knime, Galaxy, WS-Pgrade, and TOPPAS — via the TOPPtools concept and a unified parameter handling. the way that it just… integrates?? obsessed. 😭💖

📚 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE TO BE CITED 📚

okay if you're gonna cite it (and you SHOULD, it's the moment), here's the exact reference, copy it character for character bestie, do not freestyle this one:

Marc Sturm, Andreas Bertsch, Clemens Gröpl, Andreas Hildebrandt, Rene Hussong, Eva Lange, Nico Pfeifer, Ole Schulz-Trieglaff, Alexandra Zerck, Knut Reinert, and Oliver Kohlbacher (2008) OpenMS – an Open-Source Software Framework for Mass Spectrometry. BMC Bioinformatics, 9:163. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-163.

that's the whole crew, all eleven of them, slay. 👑

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read these too, they're the friend group:

also!! the program is documented fully in the Tutorials, which are packaged in openms-doc. so like, if you want the deep lore, that's where it lives. 📖✨

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

This manual page was written by Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>. tysm Filippo, we appreciate you fr fr 🫶

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. go read the license bestie, it's legally binding and also lowkey a bop 💀

and that's the whole page!! this one dropped back in October 2012, and it's living in the LIBOPENMS(3) section of the manual. vintage but still main character energy. bye bestie, go quantitate something 💖🦋🌸

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