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Spectra

This is the released version of Spectra; for the devel version, see Spectra.

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.17, 3.16, 3.15, 3.14, 3.13, 3.12

Spectra Infrastructure for Mass Spectrometry Data


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

The Spectra package defines an efficient infrastructure for storing and handling mass spectrometry spectra and functionality to subset, process, visualize and compare spectra data. It provides different implementations (backends) to store mass spectrometry data. These comprise backends tuned for fast data access and processing and backends for very large data sets ensuring a small memory footprint.

Author: RforMassSpectrometry Package Maintainer [cre], Laurent Gatto [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-1520-2268 , Johannes Rainer [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-6977-7147 , Sebastian Gibb [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0001-7406-4443 , Philippine Louail [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0007-5429-6846 , Jan Stanstrup [ctb] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-0541-7369 , Nir Shahaf [ctb], Mar Garcia-Aloy [ctb] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-1330-6610 , Guillaume Deflandre [ctb] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0008-1257-2416 , Ahlam Mentag [ctb] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0008-5438-7067

Maintainer: RforMassSpectrometry Package Maintainer <maintainer at rformassspectrometry.org>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("Spectra")):

Laurent Gatto, Johannes Rainer, Sebastian Gibb, Philippine Louail. Spectra: Spectra Infrastructure for Mass Spectrometry Data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.Spectra, R package version 1.22.2, https://bioconductor.org/packages/Spectra.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("Spectra")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("Spectra")
Creating new `MsBackend` class HTML R Script
Large-scale data handling and processing with Spectra HTML R Script
Description and usage of Spectra object HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews Infrastructure, MassSpectrometry, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Software
Version1.22.2
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.12 (R-4.0) (6 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 4.1.0), S4Vectors, BiocParallel
Imports ProtGenerics (>= 1.39.2), methods, IRanges, MsCoreUtils (>= 1.23.6), graphics, grDevices, stats, tools, utils, fs, BiocGenerics, MetaboCoreUtils, data.table
System Requirements
URLhttps://github.com/RforMassSpectrometry/Spectra
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/RforMassSpectrometry/Spectra/issues
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Suggests testthat, knitr (>= 1.1.0), MsDataHub, roxygen2, BiocStyle (>= 2.5.19), mzR (>= 2.19.6), rhdf5 (>= 2.32.0), rmarkdown, vdiffr (>= 1.0.0), msentropy, patrick
Linking To
Enhances
Depends On Me hdxmsqc, MetCirc, MsBackendMassbank, MsBackendMetaboLights, MsBackendMgf, MsBackendMsp, MsBackendRawFileReader, MsBackendSql
Imports Me Chromatograms, CompoundDb, lcmsPlot, MetaboAnnotation, MsExperiment, MsQuality, PSMatch, SpectraQL, SpectriPy, xcms
Suggests Me fioRa, MetNet, MsDataHub, MSnbase, RaMS
Links To Me
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package Spectra_1.22.2.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) Spectra_1.22.2.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) Spectra_1.22.2.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) Spectra_1.22.2.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/Spectra
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/Spectra
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/Spectra/
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