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MsBackendParquet

This is the development version of MsBackendParquet; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.

Apache Parquet-based Mass Spectrometry Data Backend


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Mass spectrometry (MS) data backend for the Spectra Bioconductor package that stores and retrieves spectra and peak data from on-disk Apache Parquet datasets. Spectra metadata together with m/z and intensity values are stored in a columnar Parquet format that supports compression, dictionary encoding and Hive-style partitioning. Datasets are written with the Apache Arrow R bindings and queried with DuckDB. Spectra variables are held in a bounded in-memory index so that filtering and metadata access are fast while peak data remains on disk.

Author: Ossama Edbali [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-0132-8668 , Ralf Johannes Maria Weber [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-8796-4771 , BioFAIR UK [fnd] (BioFAIR Pathfinder Project)

Maintainer: Ossama Edbali <o.edbali at bham.ac.uk>

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

Ossama Edbali, Ralf Johannes Maria Weber. MsBackendParquet: Apache Parquet-based Mass Spectrometry Data Backend. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.MsBackendParquet, R package version 0.99.8, https://bioconductor.org/packages/MsBackendParquet.

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Installation

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

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

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("MsBackendParquet")

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("MsBackendParquet")
Apache Parquet-based Mass Spectrometry Data Backend HTML
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews DataImport, Infrastructure, MassSpectrometry, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Software
Version0.99.8
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.24 (R-4.6)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 4.5.0), Spectra (>= 1.16.0)
Imports arrow (>= 14.0.0), BiocParallel, DBI, duckdb (>= 1.2.0), IRanges, jsonlite, methods, MsCoreUtils, ProtGenerics (>= 1.36.0), S4Vectors, stats, tools, utils
System Requirements
URLhttps://github.com/computational-metabolomics/MsBackendParquet
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/computational-metabolomics/MsBackendParquet/issues
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Suggests BiocStyle, bench, dplyr, knitr, MsDataHub, MsExperiment, mzR, rmarkdown, SpectraQL, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
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