OPENMS-COMMON(7)

💖 OPENMS-COMMON 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for openms-common, section 7 of the Miscellaneous Information Manual. it's giving "shared files, big science energy" and honestly? obsessed. 🧚✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

openms-common — library for LC/MS data management and analysis — common files 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this page is the quick lil rundown of the openms-common package, which is the one that ships all the shared data for the OpenMS software framework. no cap. 🎀

and like, what is OpenMS? it's a whole infrastructure for building mass-spectrometry-related software, plus some genuinely powerful 2D and 3D visualization solutions. it's the moment. 💅

it does analyses for a bunch of different quantitation protocols, including:

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

…and it also has built-in algorithms for de-novo identification and database search, plus adapters so it can vibe with other state-of-the-art tools like X!Tandem, Mascot, OMSSA… 🔥

and the way it supports the Proteomics Standard Initiative (PSI) formats for MS data?? iconic. it also makes it super easy to plug tools into workflow engines like Knime, Galaxy, WS-Pgrade, and TOPPAS — that's via the TOPPtools concept and a unified parameter handling. main character behavior fr fr. 👑

📚 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE TO BE CITED 📚

if you're out here citing this in your paper (and you should, bestie, give credit where it's due 💖), here's the full thing, character for character:

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.

periodt. 🎀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go check these out too, they're all part of the fam:

• libopenms(3)
• topp(1)
• openms(7)
• openms-doc(7)

also!! the program is documented fully in the Tutorials, and those are packaged in openms-doc. so if you want the deep dive, that's where it's at. 🌈

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

this manual page was written by Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org>. 💜

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.

aaaand that's the whole thing bestie, no skips, no skimming, all the lore intact 🦋 this dropped back in November 2012 and it's still out here doing its thing as part of OPENMS-COMMON(7) — slay forever. ✨💖